Posted on 10/20/2014 11:42:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The German family structure is changing, with nearly a third of every family no longer living in the “classic model” and big differences in what family looks like in the former East and West, statistics agency Destatis announced on Monday.
The 2013 Microcensus showed that 70 percent of families consisted of a married couple and at least one child under the age of 18. And while the classical model still dominates, the figures show it’s in decline. In 1996, 81 percent of families centered on a married couple.
Today, 20 percent of children live with single parents, up six percent from the mid-1990s. The other 10 percent are households with unmarried couples, including same-sex parents. That number has doubled since 1996. …
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The problems brought to individuals and society by the acceptance (recently) of homosexuality and same-sex marriage are small compared to the problems brought by the acceptance (20 to 70 years earlier) of no-fault divorce, cohabitation, single parent families, teen sex, and mothers opting for jobs and day care over being a mother.
No, they are not “small”. They are equally disastrous to society in their impact.
1 percent of the population behaving badly cannot do the harm that 99 percent of the population behaving badly can.
how many children grow up in alcoholic households? sexually abusive heterosexual households? angry parent households? mentally ill households? ignorant households? homosexual households? pagan houseolds? ignorant households? uneducated households? divorced households? welfare households? Democratic households? etc.
some bad things are worse than other bad things in size and shape and quantity.
that being said, for the state to normalize gay marriage and gay adoption of children and homosexuality itself is a monstrously stupid and unGodly and secularly dumb-a** thing to do.
They can if they remain unpunished.
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