Two Parent Families ARE Better For Kids. . .

[Collimator]

. . . But Right-Wing policies which lionize "traditional family values" don't help to create the stable homes that they claim to support.

[T]he problem isn’t a cultural rejection of marriage, or a nationwide feminist rejection of the nuclear family (I wish). Most people want to get married. The problem is that decades of largely conservative policy-making have fueled inequality, gutted the working class, left a generation of men isolated and under-employed and unmoored, impoverished families and made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Sad to say, young bucks of solid Republicans that dominate Central Maine.....

ain't getting the loving or the education to figure it out.

[lostnfound]

2. So..if the conservative's spouse dies, do they hand the kids over to a couple to raise them?

[Stargazer99]

3. I remember as a young girl in the 1950's religion stated even if the father was abusive

the woman must stay in the marriage. To stay in an abusive situation is unhealthy for child or woman. It reminds me of a part in the Bible where two men approached Jesus and asked who to follow and Jesus reply was to look at their fruits first...good advice...maybe staying in an abusive situation is a bad fruit.
I am a friend of a person who ministers to men in jail and he told me something that I had no idea of and that was most men in jail had bad relations with their fathers. Maybe men need to be helped to be a healthy mentally/emotionally personality to improve our society.

[niyad]

4. I remember reading that only about 20% of American houeholds fall in that 2

parent category. And, which is better for a child, a 2--parent household where the pareents fight, or are abusive, or there is financial hardship, for example? Or a stable, loving, single parent one as another example?

The 2 parent ideal of the pukes and fundies, for example, is a patriarchal fantasy.

[TygrBright]

5. A cogent commentary. Once again, boils down to "Republicans are why we can't have nice things." n/t