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Originally posted by timalkin
What is the alternative? Running around half-naked and fucking each other like animals? That's what we're doing now.
The basic unit of a society is the family. The family situation in this country consists of stepparents, stepsiblings, child custody fights, baby's daddy, welfare payments, and general chaos.
The most basic unit of our society is becoming very unstable. Do you honestly think that most kids can grow up knowing right from wrong when they have never had a decent role model in their entire lives?
As someone already said, divorces, etc. cost this country way too much money and time. While a focused campaign on promoting stable marriages will never completely eliminate the animals among us, it would surely help the average person.
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This assumes, of course, that most divorces are due to fixable problems and not fundamental incompatabilities between partners.
Is this true? I don't know. But I do think that throwing money to force together people who really don't belong together and would be happier if they were out looking for someone else is wasteful and futile.
I don't think that married parents who don't love each other serve as any sort of "better role model" than divorced parents. In fact, if those divorced parents find what makes them happy, I'd say that they are the superior role models.