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Only Caitlin Flanagan Could Make Mark Sanford Look Good

A guest post from Linda Hirshman:

With a cover story by working mother scourge Caitlin Flanagan, next week’s Time Magazine takes the occasion of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s staggeringly banal adultery to tell America that “Marriage Matters.”

Why does marriage matter? Not of course because of the harm to the deer-in-the-headlights brigade—Silda Wall Spitzer, Jenny Sanford, etc. That would put Flanagan on the side of the adult females.

Marriage matters, because single parent families are bad for children, the only people who count ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)