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The legality and acceptability of divorce isn't mentioned but I think it should be. Single parents will be rarer in countries where divorce isn't a viable option but that doesn't mean the children are raised in healthier environments.
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>the comradery and care two adults can have for each other can be reflected into children no matter the gender of the adults who serve as examples. The love between a man and a woman is unique and no other arrangement replicates it.
How so? Would you describe this uniqueness so that I may understand it?
We went from cultural conventions dating back to the Roman empire at least and upheaved them in large part. Those were staples in the social fabric which have not yet been hewn shut. It's no wonder we're replete with relational dysfunction as we've all been untethered and left to figure it out . It's confusing for both men and women, not to mention the trans folks and those outside the heteronormal sphere. Our recent…
We went from cultural conventions dating back to the Roman empire at least and upheaved them in large part. Those were staples in the social fabric which have not yet been hewn shut. It's no wonder we're replete with relational dysfunction as we've all been untethered and left to figure it out . It's confusing for both men and women, not to mention the trans folks and those outside the heteronormal sphere. Our recent…
Reading well regarded works such as The Roman Family (1992)
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Roman_Family.htm...
strongly supports that in Roman times, just as today, there was no single concept of family. While the “nuclear family” was central, divorce was common, as was remarriage, resulting in blended families. If a parent died, a child was sometimes fostered by extended family.
It appears that one of the greatest differences between classic Roman times and modern US customs might be the extent of extended family support, that difference perhaps also seperating modern US customs from many other modern countries.
The legality and acceptability of divorce isn't mentioned but I think it should be. Single parents will be rarer in countries where divorce isn't a viable option but that doesn't mean the children are raised in healthier environments.
It doesn’t, but on average it does.
Not surprising. A part of the cultural war in the US (in 1992) was that it was fine, even encouraged, for a woman to be a single parent. The controversy started between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown (a fictional character that decided to become a single mother). The MSM at the time was extremely supportive of Murphy Brown's position. Here's an editorial by the Brookings Institution from 2012 about the controversy. http…
I find the argument here to be so incomplete that it verges on silly. Raising a child is difficult, and nobody goes into it wanting to go it alone. The question is not "is single parenthood bad", it's "is single parenthood worse than the alternative of forcing parents to stay together despite a toxic, loveless, or unfaithful marriage". Of course, ideally, people just shouldn't be having kids if they're not absolutely…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>the comradery and care two adults can have for each other can be reflected into children no matter the gender of the adults who serve as examples. The love between a man and a woman is unique and no other arrangement replicates it.
How so? Would you describe this uniqueness so that I may understand it?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn’t, but on average it does.
I can't possibly imagine that is accurate, and even if it was that wouldn't be ethically viable anyway.