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"Kearney says she wants to grab the attention of both conservatives who say they care about children's well-being and progressives reluctant to talk about famil
by BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
"Kearney says she wants to grab the attention of both conservatives who say they care about children's well-being and progressives reluctant to talk about family structures, because the link between single parenting, inequality and mobility in America is too strong to deny."
She doesn't need to grab the attention of conservatives because her findings already support their pre-existing beliefs, like it says earlier in the article. I get the feeling she felt like she needed to phrase this very delicately.
- tetromino_ 3y agoI suspect her findings that the gender of the married parents is irrelevant, the thing that matters is whether or not they are married is the part that conservatives are unwilling to accept.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agothat is a good point
- kibwen 3y ago> She doesn't need to grab the attention of conservatives because her findings already support their pre-existing beliefs Not quite, because the other solution to the problem is giving people access to sexual education and birth control so that they can decide to have children only after they find someone they're willing to marry, which are so famously contrary to conservative beliefs that they've based 40 years of political campaigning around their opposition.