[TheDon]

"What makes you think that the government needs to be involved in fostering strong families, anyway?"

That is the question of the hour. If you understand that strong traditional families are the strength of a nation, you understand that society, hence government, has a strong interest in promoting the same. If you do not have that understanding, you don't see the point. And rightly so.

[mvpel]

That is the question of the hour. If you understand that strong traditional families are the strength of a nation, you understand that society, hence government, has a strong interest in promoting the same. If you do not have that understanding, you don't see the point. And rightly so.

I do not contest that strong families are the strength of a nation.

Can you comment on my notion that government involvement in the family is precisely why we don't have generally strong families today, instead of arguing against something I didn't say?

Under that premise, the way to foster strong families is to get the government out of marriage and family altogether. They've been trying, under the tax-code, divorce law, welfare, etc, to alternatively promote or destroy strong families for decades. It should be obvious by now that what they've been doing has not been working to promote strong families.

There have been strong families for centuries, so somehow I think that government involvement or the lack thereof is the underlying issue.