the "liberal" lifestyle only offers pain

[Fishlore]

I disagree. Fallacious posts can be ignored, and probably should be. Response merely exacerbates.

 

[jwoodie]

This seems like more of a Health and Lifestyle issue. I was lucky enough to be brought up in a stable nuclear family, although it was not all a bed of roses. I have provided the same for my children, sometimes at great cost. I do not disparage the different circumstances of others, but neither do I denigrate traditional family values that have proven beneficial to a majority of people.

Our self-absorbed generation constantly placed its own desires over the needs of its children, with dire results. There is now a much greater incidence of emotional disturbance and dysfunctional behavior than ever before. Are we really people a favor by redefining their pathologies as within the acceptable norm?

 

[Fishlore]

This seems like more of a Health and Lifestyle issue. I was lucky enough to be brought up in a stable nuclear family, although it was not all a bed of roses. I have provided the same for my children, sometimes at great cost. I do not disparage the different circumstances of others, but neither do I denigrate traditional family values that have proven beneficial to a majority of people.

Our self-absorbed generation constantly placed its own desires over the needs of its children, with dire results. There is now a much greater incidence of emotional disturbance and dysfunctional behavior than ever before. Are we really people a favor by redefining their pathologies as within the acceptable norm?

Although you were "lucky enough to be brought up in a stable nuclear family," as an individual -- we do not get to chose our parents -- there are statistically significant patterns that show children brought up in such families to be better off as adults than children brought up in divorced or single-parent families.

That kids raised in stable two-parent families are statistically better off is not chance. It is true many kinds from broken and single homes are successful and happy adults while many kids from stable two-parent homes have their problems, the general superiority of the stable, two-family home is clear. Congratulations!

It would be in society's interest to incentivize the family patterns that we know are more likely to lead to a successful, happy adult life. This of course is socialism, which is why it is found in places like Scandinavia. We hate socialism.

Interestingly, the stable, two-parent home has, in recent years, begun to track more and more with education levels, which is to say, income levels. A stable, two-parent home has become a luxury item for the upper middle class, accelerating the growing inequality of household income.