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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The author makes this statement:

[quote]The issue is complicated, and solutions will necessarily be multifaceted. Just as scholars, journalists and policymakers acknowledge the need to improve schools and debate various reform ideas, those of us who discuss and debate questions of society and policy should be frank about the advantages of a healthy two-parent home for children and challenge ourselves to come up with ways to promote and support that institution.[/quote]

I look at this differently. We don't need to promote and support the institution of marriage to achieve the author's goals. We should be concerned about how to reform policy and society so that as many people as possible grow up in healthy home environments with access to quality education and parents (and a supportive community) who have adequate resources and energy to raise them. If we achieve these goals, there will be more healthy, stable children and adults, increasing the likelihood that they will form healthy, stable relationships. [b]When discussing reforms, I would ask why we have a public school system that asks so much of families that kids from single-parent homes and even two-parent homes without sufficient income to have a parent stay a home have trouble succeeding without significant outside support (either family or paid) or extremely flexible work arrangements. Schools have not changed since the days when most women were SAH parents. I take that back, they actually have changed to impose greater demands and expectations on parents, ignoring the fact that most of them work outside of the home. These demands have the greatest impact on parents with less education, less income, and less time and less control over how their time is spent, to the detriment of their children, and often, through no fault of their own.[/b]

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This is unfortunately so true. The schools have an obligation to educate children, yet they continually push more and more of the teacher's job onto parents. Nothing will change if parents keep taking it.[/quote]

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