They are simply different forms of the American family, or so I am told. My point is that not all new ideas, or compassionate ideas are good, or work out as intended. Since the beginning of the "great society" programs (1960s) the out of wedlock childbirth rate has steadily grown; it is now 70% for blacks, 50% for hispanics and 30% for whites. Some "changes" just do not work out, but once made are, in fact, virtually irreversable. We now have six states and DC that allow SSM, so lets wait and see how "advantageous" it REALLY is, another decade or so, should do the trick nicely. We jumped in and decided that "helping" unwed mothers was a good idea, thus we now have many, many more of them. Their are benefits, real and not simply imagined, to a "traditional" family yet in the name of "fairness" and "helping" we have now created many children that never knew what having a daddy was llike. I realize that good ideas, have unintended consequences, just like the prohibition of alcohol and other recreational drugs; what looks so good on paper often turns out not to work out quite as planned.
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