I believe that this argument kind of misses the point. If you focus just on two-parent family makeup, then you won't see the successes of separated parent families. The key is not whether two people are married, it's whether they share parenting in an equable and cordial way. It's a matter of assuming responsibility for your actions, a p…
I believe that this argument kind of misses the point. If you focus just on two-parent family makeup, then you won't see the successes of separated parent families. The key is not whether two people are married, it's whether they share parenting in an equable and cordial way. It's a matter of assuming responsibility for your actions, a principle that is in horrible decline in this country, for reasons too complex to go into here. I'm talking about dads who contribute their genes and then walk, and maybe do it again, and again. I'd be willing to wager that kids raised in a true co-parenting situation, or one where the mother is the primary caretaker but the father is deeply involved both financially and socially, do just as well as kids in a two-parent home. I've done it and know plenty of others who've done it too. So do the research and prove me wrong. If you can't, then you should be talking a lot more about the responsibility problem....
I believe that this argument kind of misses the point. If you focus just on two-parent family makeup, then you won't see the successes of separated parent families. The key is not whether two people are married, it's whether they share parenting in an equable and cordial way. It's a matter of assuming responsibility for your actions, a principle that is in horrible decline in this country, for reasons too complex to go into here. I'm talking about dads who contribute their genes and then walk, and maybe do it again, and again. I'd be willing to wager that kids raised in a true co-parenting situation, or one where the mother is the primary caretaker but the father is deeply involved both financially and socially, do just as well as kids in a two-parent home. I've done it and know plenty of others who've done it too. So do the research and prove me wrong. If you can't, then you should be talking a lot more about the responsibility problem....