Opinion: We need to stop looking the other way or couching our thoughts in euphemism when it comes to the cost of single-parent homes.
In the realm of uncomfortable truths, there’s one that many people — especially, it would seem, liberals — don’t want to talk about, even though statistics inarguably prove its substance: Children do best when raised in two-parent homes.
We’re talking about a huge chunk of the nation’s children, about one-third of whom live with a single parent, a ratio that is vastly higher than in decades past.The numbers are even starker in Bexar County, a place plagued by child poverty and where almost 36% of kids live in single-parent homes, higher than the national average.but they certainly shouldn’t be ignored.
Ironically, college-educated liberals, while reluctant to criticize or even question the issue of single-parenting, are far more likely to raise their own kids in two-parent homes — a pretty clear-cut case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” Other than letting him meet his toddler grandson Sam once, I never saw Jack Fletcher again, and he died alone.
My proclivities broadened into experimentation with hard drugs in high school, where I caused my poor mother a world of hurt by regularly skipping out, getting suspended, breaking curfew, running away from home and engaging or participating in all other manner of juvenile delinquency. But I consider the outcome of my and my sisters’ childhoods a lucky twist of fate, an unexpected gift from a benevolent universe, and not some child-rearing template I would recommend to anyone.
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