And while we are at it, let’s get serious about single-parent families. As the climate enthusiasts like to say, the science is in.
Single-parent families are a very bad idea. So why don’t CNN and Fox News run single-parent horror stories 24-7? They could, you know, without breaking a sweat. And I’ll bet there are enough single-parent horror stories out there that they could change the story every hour if they had the budget for it.
Now that would be something.
Janice Shaw, director and senior fellow of the Beverly LaHaye Institute, the policy institute of Concerned Women for America, thinks that, when it comes to single parents, it is time we had a “Popeye Moment,” the point in a Popeye cartoon where Popeye says: "I've had all I can stand. I can't stands no more."
Are we there yet on single-parent families? Why not? It’s not just a moral question, or, if you prefer a question of rational ethics. It’s a safety question.
Children are much safer living with their married biological parents than any other arrangement.
Sorry, that’s not quite true. Adopted children living with their married adoptive parents are even safer than children living with their natural married parents.
Which is an argument, if we needed one, for getting tough on non-performing single parents. If you can’t get your act together, fast, Ms. Single Mom, then we are going to put your kid up for adoption. Fast.
That’s another subject on which the science is in. The worst thing you can do to a child is to have her hanging around in foster families while her single parent leisurely gets her life together.
A kid needs a permanent home. Fast.
You see, when a single mom doesn’t get her act together, fast, it shows that she just doesn’t care about kids.
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