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Originally Posted by Danth
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De facto, as opposed to media talking points? Have a few examples of the harm being done to the family fabric of this country in recent decades:
a) Decades of wage stagnation has required an increase in family working hours to make ends meet, making families with two working parents the norm and leaving parents with less time to devote to their children.
b) An explosion of drug use, particularly meth, is having a similar ruinous effect across low-income white families as crack cocaine did during the 1980's.
c) Single parent families grow ever more common. Something on the order of 70 to 80 per cent of black children are raised in single-parent homes nowadays, and the number of such children among whites is entirely too high, as well.
d) An erosion of opportunity and increase in debt load among lower- and middle-class youth forces young adults to put off moving out or even starting families until later in life. In addition to the complications involved with older first-time mothers, it likely contributes to the lack of replacement-rate births.
e) Public education is in a pathetic state in this country
But by all means let's continue ignoring the elephant(s) in the room while arguing over a minor issue that affects, by definition, at most a couple per cent of the population.
Danth
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I agree these are all problems faced by American families. However how will it ever be seen together when all we have is people putting the target on that small percentage. If we can fix this issue. Get people to start looking beyond people's genitals. Maybe they'll see the rest?