Why conservatives must embrace “Children’s Equality”
The new inequality: childrens’ needs vs. adults’ desires
I was talking to Dr. Morse yesterday, and asked her to think back to when she was a young girl in school. “How many kids were from divorced families?” I asked her. She said she could think of one. The rest lived with their married biological parents. Before the Sexual Revolution, there used to be an important and unrecognized equality among children: nearly every child lived with his/her married parents.
Let’s think for a moment about what the Sexual Revolution has done to equality from the child’s point of view. In the name of adult sexual liberation, we now have a tremendous amount of family/structural inequality among children. Some kids live with their married parents, and many do not:
- Nearly 40% of births are out of wedlock
- A majority of teens don’t live in intact families
- One in three children live in single parent homes
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