Either those "unhealthy relationships" are incredibly uncommon as a proportion of marriages, or it is better for children to live in a marriage with an "unhealt

Either those "unhealthy relationships" are incredibly uncommon as a proportion of marriages, or it is better for children to live in a marriage with an "unhealthy relationship" than a straight-up broken home. Decreased birthrates pose problems for current economic systems which are premised on taxing the young to pay for the old. Later children are more likely to have birth defects. But like I said, ultimately it is necessary, so it is a mixed bag. I totally agree with you on the War on Drugs. A legal system that sends 28% of black males to at least one year of prison undoubtably has something to do with why 80% of black children in the US grow up without fathers, and that undoubtably has something to do with why 28% of black males in the US spend at least a year in prison.