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  • Re: Feminism ended Marriage/Family

    I came to this very interesting post thread a few days late, by way of Blue Skies by way of another Responder to both Blue Skies and MichaelBernard1 on the Iraq War exegesis as to ''how we got here.'' While I sympathize with this female academician and her illustrations greatly, based on her point of view, I have to either disagree or comment ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by MichaelBernard1 on March 31, 2008

  • marriage does not guarantee success

    I take issue with the idea that ''out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe''. I believe the national catastrophe is a lack of accountability. I think that single parents raising childred without the support of the absent parent should be looked at as ''deadbeat parents are a national catastrophe''. The parents remaining with the ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by jylmama on March 22, 2008

  • How often does this happen

    i am paying child support to a woman that intentionally got pregnant with the intention of having a child and having someone else pay, not only the bills, but have a few hundred bucks a month left over. Is it possible that the government's intervention in the private lives of people is part of the problem. I believe that the problem lies not in ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by Stan25 on March 22, 2008

  • The endangered husband

    I want to commend the writer of ''The Best Policy'' on standing up for what she understands as a pragmatic and unrelenting truth about American society. I did the marriage plan that our parents followed: use self-discipline, have self-respect, be smart, and commit to the marriage for commitment's sake. It hasn't been easy, but I and my wonderful ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by Varee1 on March 22, 2008

  • forget juno.

    I am an average, reasonably intelligent grandmother...no radical, right or left-wing leanings..altho, some might disagree with that. I have seen, over the years, our social mores change to such a degree, that a lot of people don't even consider the things they do as ''sinning''. More later.
    Posted to The Best Policy by pancho on March 22, 2008

  • people say it's bad

    ok so you have people who think pregnancy out of marraige is bad and it causes a lot of pain... they also say that it can lead to unsuccessful people, and more unmarried pregnancies... I decided to reply to this because I am a child of an un married pregnancy woman... when my dad left i was to young to realise it but i knew enough that he was ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by musykalmayhem on March 21, 2008

  • Re: well-written statement on an unpopular position

    I understand what you're saying, and certainly in today's society with it's legal and social definitions, you are correct. However, I think frannyblue's point was that ''convention'' needs to be expanded, so that the social laws/mores and legal structure are made to support what we define as unconventional now. Another example of this kind of ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by gdooley on March 21, 2008