Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
The only reason GWB is not an abject failure, cycling in and out of detox is b/c his parents were decent people with mad cheddar. One parent would have been hard pressed to reign in the imbecile. In the face of all his advantages Bush still required 3+ decades to straighten up. Bush is not inherently honest or honorable . . . he's just simple. And his simple mind says marriage is better than the majority of the alternatives. The problem with being a simpleton is competing with reality. Successful marriages are probably the best possible outcome for developing and maintaining the family unit. Bush grew up in a nice one and apparently his wife has tolerated the present one. In Bush's pea-sized cerebrum that's enough evidence to make policy.
Now of course two successful parents isn't enough to keep your children from violating drug (Jeb's children) and alcohol (W's kids) laws.
If you don't like your posts to be called rhetoric, then don't post BS such as that.
The question is whether children as a whole grow up better and have better lives if they come from a stable two parent family. I don't think that you can find a study that does not support that.
The welfare system that has encouraged single parent families has been counter-productive. This one small program is not going to turn the society that has grown up with a dependency attitude on the government around but it is a small step in the right direction in my opinion.
From the responses of some in this thread I am worried that we have gone to far and the values of personal responsibility have all but disappeared from a generation. That does not bode well for the future.