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Opinion: The problem with all this talk about two-parent ‘privilege’ (major barf alert)
CNN ^ | sep 27, 2023 | Jill Filipovic

Posted on 09/27/2023 8:06:05 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

A new book by economist Melissa Kearney makes a readily apparent but still-provocative argument: Children raised by two married parents do better than children raised by single parents. The difference, Kearney argues, isn’t just financial (although the money matters a lot); the “two-parent privilege,” as her book calls it, is also about parental time investment and familial stability. The problem with the point she makes — and with the firestorm of discussion it’s touched off on the left and the right — is that there are many things that are statistically better for us, but if those things are not available or accessible, knowing that they’re better is, at best, a moot point.

Kearney bills herself as a moderate, but her argument is being taken up by a great many conservatives who argue that her findings, which are robustly supported by the data, demonstrate that liberal mores around family formation have destroyed the nuclear family and left children worse off. The answer, they say, is for liberals to own up to their wrongdoing and for all of us to start promoting marriage.

A closer look at the facts on the ground, though, shows that the problem isn’t a cultural rejection of marriage, or a nationwide feminist rejection of the nuclear family (I wish). Most people want to get married. The problem is that decades of largely conservative policy-making have fueled inequality, gutted the working class, left a generation of men isolated and under-employed and unmoored, impoverished families and made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2parentprivilege; children; family; marriage; parenting; singleparents
I know it's against rational thought, but go to the link to read all the crap based on the rules of war meaning know your enemy.

As usual the author completely misses conservatives objective of getting back to traditional families with stay at home moms.

1 posted on 09/27/2023 8:06:05 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
A new book by economist Melissa Kearney makes a readily apparent but still-provocative argument: Children raised by two married parents do better than children raised by single parents.

This is only "provocative" to idiots.

2 posted on 09/27/2023 8:13:11 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The problem is that decades of The Great Society policies largely conservative policy-making have fueled inequality, gutted the working class, left a generation of men isolated and under-employed and unmoored, impoverished families and made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners.

Fixed it.

3 posted on 09/27/2023 8:24:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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The problem is that decades of largely conservative policy-making have fueled inequality, gutted the working class, left a generation of men isolated and under-employed and unmoored, impoverished families and made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners.

None of these slanted political views has anything to do with the question at hand. It comes down to this. Married couples have to understand the word "sacrifice".

I'm suprised this word is still in the dictionary today because it is never spoke about with regards to family.

4 posted on 09/27/2023 8:24:34 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Big Gov became Big Daddy and "poof" went dad.

Minorities, women and children hardest hit...for real, not sarcasm.

5 posted on 09/27/2023 8:25:49 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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No, the author is mainly projecting the failures generated by liberal policies as conservative's fault along with outrage over abortion no longer being a Constitutional right. The last sentence of your excerpt spells it out.

Jill thinks most voters are stupid enough to believe this tripe, but then again, she's mainly preaching to the choir anyhow. This is their message. All bad things in our society are the fault of conservatives.

6 posted on 09/27/2023 8:41:52 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: frogjerk

The “Great Society” was neither great or socially beneficial.


7 posted on 09/27/2023 9:04:45 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: frogjerk

Been married 47 years, bought our home, raised 2 kids (one boy-one girl, both very successful), bought my wife 5 new cars over that period of time (my WIFES cars, not mine).

First new truck I have ever owned I bought 2 years ago, I love my RAM 2500 Cummins diesel! ;)


8 posted on 09/27/2023 11:16:54 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I can’t decide which is worse: her writing skills or her logic.


9 posted on 09/28/2023 12:06:06 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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If conservative policies are to blame for the breakdown of the family, why are stable families more prevalent in conservative areas? She makes no sense.


10 posted on 09/28/2023 1:45:39 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: 5th MEB

Well, I gotcha by 4 years ( 7/1/72 ) but yeah 1 girl, 1 boy, doin’ great. 3 GK’s ... who knows what the future holds ?

But yeah, you know what? My memory is slippin’ ... no doubt ... say no more ...


11 posted on 09/28/2023 3:36:19 AM PDT by dr_lew2
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“decades of largely conservative policy-making have...made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners”


12 posted on 09/28/2023 3:46:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Sorry, Toots. It isn’t privilege. It’s a benefit as a result of years of hard work and sacrifice.

EC


13 posted on 09/28/2023 4:12:49 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: lightman

It has been very beneficial for Deep State.


14 posted on 09/28/2023 4:19:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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The problem is that decades of largely conservative policy-making have fueled inequality, gutted the working class, left a generation of men isolated and under-employed and unmoored, impoverished families and made it harder for women to both control their own fertility and find suitable partners.

WHAT?!

15 posted on 09/28/2023 7:30:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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Problem isn’t a cultural rejection of marriage.

Like Chicago?.


16 posted on 09/28/2023 9:00:42 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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