Old fashioned ideas such as homes with two biological parents
Pay VERY close attention to the specific language and emphasis on biology in this top story from AP. It details "the dark underbelly" (their words, not mine) of the trend away from homes where both parents are in place. As you're reading this, say a prayer for journalists who are gutsy enough to report on "dark underbellyies" against the forces of political correctness which rule traditional media.
From here:
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/17/1104365-abuse-risk-seen-worse-a...
"This is the dark underbelly of cohabitation," said Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. "Cohabitation has become quite common, and most people think, 'What's the harm?' The harm is we're increasing a pattern of relationships that's not good for children."
Keep these next stats in mind next time you're feeling like that old fashioned oddball who's not quite ready to get on board with the new way of doing things around here.
_Children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri abuse reports published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2005.
_Children living in stepfamilies or with single parents are at higher risk of physical or sexual assault than children living with two biological or adoptive parents, according to several studies co-authored by David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.
And what would California be anyway without the holy institution of divorce?
_Girls whose parents divorce are at significantly higher risk of sexual assault, whether they live with their mother or their father, according to research by Robin Wilson, a family law professor at Washington and Lee University.
Comments
Articles like that are a heartache to read when you try to imagine what the children are living through before their young lives are snuffed out or blighted forever.
Unfortunately, no amount of "social working" can overcome the prevalent societal message that no family structure is better than any other. Our children are learning this in school under the rubrics of diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness.
Yes, terrible things happen in biological families as well, but the undeniable fact pointed out in the article is that the new family structures that are invented as people follow the dictates of the flesh are not the best for the children.