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Single parent households are perfectly capable of raising children who value education, cooperation, sobriety and non-violence. I would know, I grew up in one,
by thegrimmest 4y ago
Single parent households are perfectly capable of raising children who value education, cooperation, sobriety and non-violence. I would know, I grew up in one, as did many of my peers. The key difference was and continues to be culture. The question is who is accountable for culture? Is it "society", or the individuals who perpetuate that culture in their own households?
- corrral 4y agoIt can both be true that a particular single-parent household is very successful, and that if you study an entire population and control other variables, single-parent households are less successful than two-parent households.
- thegrimmest 4y agoYes it can, but it doesn't follow that these studies are justification for removing accountability from individuals, their households, culture, and practices. Nor does it follow that the solutions are not found in changes to individual behaviour.
- corrral 4y ago> but it doesn't follow that these studies are justification for removing accountability from individuals, their households, culture, and practices. Cool. I never called for that, so we're not disagreeing. > Nor does it follow that the solutions are not found in changes to individual behaviour. This is one of those things that's both true and useless.
- thegrimmest 4y ago> true and useless. I'm not sure it is useless. If the problems are individual, not systemic, then the solutions lie with individual accountability, not systemic change, right?