Reply to NYT Article on "Rise of Single-Parent Families is Not a Good Thing"

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[quote=Anonymous]It is extremely frustrating to continue this type of back and forth about the "family unit" when so many of our problems are from lack of support for children, especially for those under 5 years of age.

We do not support children in this country. [b]If you support the child, you support the family- in whatever form that family is in. [/b] We are in a country where the Dependent care FSA hasnt been raised since 1986 except for during 2021 covid and they let that expire. Tax credits for kids is at their lowest. Poverty is increasing in families with small children. You have water issues, lead poisoning, environmental poisoning and pollution. Underfunded school systems with lack of teachers. ETC ETC.

And lets not even address the reason marriages lasted so long previously is because women were legally and financially prisoners to their husbands and/or their fathers. To have any independence they needed to get married and that was, for some women, just a different form of a cell. Marital rape didnt even exist as a construct until 1970s and was not illegal nationwide until 1993.

Even our current judicial system is too focused on the rights of the parents when considering to remove children from the home and/or when going through custody determinations.

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