And let's face it, in his flawed world, there's always a gap--- a big gap or a small one --- between the family we have, and the family we wish we had.
But it's becoming a matter of academic taboo, and even a matter of legally prohibited discrimination, to say that family structure makes a difference, and that having a mother and father married to each other is the best setting for raising children.
Social science research showing negative outcomes for kids raised in a variety of non-mom-and-dad or non-intact household settings is suppressed just like global-warming "denier" data is suppressed. Look what they did to Mark Regnerus' studies on the relevance of family structure in parenting outcomes.
The men-and-women-are-identical ideology is proudly unempirical and is causing a lot of suffering, because ersatz-families are being conjured up, centered around the desires and demands of adults and not the rights and needs of children.
No argument from me that traditional mother and father is best. My wife and I have 3 kids. Could we have more? Times are tight and it would be tough. Plus we’re both in our 40s. Could we adopt? Maybe, but again, it would be tough. But would I ever adopt a downs or other special needs baby? No. That’s the plain truth. Does it make me a bad person? Debatable I guess. I wish all kids could be brought up in the stable m and d ideal. Sadly, just ain’t reality.