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> Kearney's argument that children who grow up in unmarried households are fighting the odds has progressives miffed and accusing Kearney of stigmatizing single
by ghusto 3y ago
> Kearney's argument that children who grow up in unmarried households are fighting the odds has progressives miffed and accusing Kearney of stigmatizing single mothers
I find this attitude applies to everything people don't want to hear. Anything that requires real change, effort, and difficulty seems to be met with anger and attack. It's so much easier to follow the accepted easy road of ignorance.
> "I'm not prioritizing one. I'm just recognizing the data and the evidence and the reality."
Good luck with that. People don't want data and evidence, they want to give their kids iPads at age 1 so they themselves can "have it all", they want to leave relationships the moment they realise compromise means not getting everything you want, they want to down pills to combat symptoms instead of working on where those symptoms are coming from.
- pixl97 3y agoThe issue I have with your take on this is one of, most likely, reverse causality. I may be making a bad guess, but if I had to I feel I would get the "If these women would just stay married like a traditional relationship demands, then all these problems go away" answer from you. Now, I'll also make an assumption that you are also going to have a hard time admitting that this is a multi-generational problem caused by male lead institutions treating women like second class citizens where they have massively unequal power. Add in a little equality and you can no longer treat your partner like an optionless slave.
- kbelder 3y agoImagining the ridiculous responses you would like your opponent to make does give you an opportunity to win arguments in your mind. I don't imagine that kind of intellectual self-pleasuring is really convincing many other people, though.
- pixl97 3y agoBecause of the nature of the issues that are occuring anyone over 30 typically isn't getting convinced. The people that are getting convinced are the younger generations of whoms general fertility rate is falling off a cliff.
- ghusto 3y ago> I may be making a bad guess, but ... You're making a bad guess ;) I meant none of what you said, and am in fact against marriage (but that's another story).