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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because society is struggling, children are struggling and our birth rate is falling.

That doesn't mean that their ideas will work, but I think that's why it's coming up.

Also, control of women is a priority for some pundit groups. [/quote]

Agreed. The research is quite clear that children  raised in two parent households fair much better, even when controlling for income. It really does a disservice to children and society to ignore reality.

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There are serious correlation/causation questions that need to be answered before this tells us very much that we can use. [/quote]

NP - No, there aren’t. No one reasonable disagrees that children fare better when there are more resources (attention (since neither mommy or daddy is dating other unrelated parties), money (since only paying for 1 household) etc.) going towards their care. [/quote]

Economist here and I have to agree that that link between correlation and causation is very clear here.[/quote]

Psychiatrist here, and I agree.  
It’s kind of baffling to me that someone can acknowledge that the way children grow up has a profound effect on their adult lives and then, at the same time, say that adults have total and complete agency over their lives.

Those things can not possibly both be true.  It’s illogical.  
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You can't seriously be suggesting that a child in a dysfunctional two parent household is better off than a child raised by a functional single parent. [/quote]

THey arent. they just refuse to discuss failed marriages because marriage is apparently a super powered force. 
"The overwhelming evidence from the psychologists that study these issues shows that bad marriages — unstable marriages — are often much worse for kids than stable single-person families. Now, Kearney will tell you that it’s because single-parent families can never make quite enough money, but my God, we spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting marriage and to null effect. Maybe we should spend it giving families the money they need to raise their children in secure ways."
- from the article

The institution of marriage does not matter. Its the people who get married who make successful marriages successful. And you cant get successful non-traumatized stable people just from keeping previous generations married. You need children to grow up in stable environments to be stable adults and you arent going to get that from just encouraging the institution of marriage.

Arguing about whether marriage is positive isnt the issue. We need to stop obsessing about the marriage institution and start putting real emphasis on economic policies that help children. [/quote]

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