Did you know that Head Start's highly touted success rate is only temporary?
Obama Administration Report Shows Head Start Ineffective | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.
This is what some of my educator friends have been telling me too. They say that kids from two parent families and who don't have Head Start are eons ahead of the Head Start kids when they start First Grade. It seems that having a mom and dad are far more important to getting a good start than an artificial government program.
That also statistically is true of straight and gay kids alike. Those from two parent families are more likely to stay in school and graduate, more likely to get higher education, are less likely to do much alcohol and other drugs, are less likely to get involved with gangs or get in trouble in the law, are much less likely to live in poverty.
Looks to me like in order to promote the general welfare, the Federal government should be looking for more ways to encourage marriage and people staying together for the kids instead of one-size-fits-all government programs, many if not most that are producing dubious results.
DISCLAIMER FOR THE NUMBNUTS: I am not saying that single parents don't ever do a good job or that there are no exceptions to the above.
Looks like a strong argument for allowing gay marriage does it not?
note: not trying to steal the thread
LOL. I don't have all that much problem with gay marriage if we can manage it in a way that won't weaken traditional marriage and relegate even more kids to single parent or unisex households. I think all kids, straight and gay, benefit hugely from having loving male and female role models in the home.
And for me, whatever policy is decided, should have the welfare of those kids in mind. Everything else anybody wants is purely secondary. That goes for ALL policy. However good it sounds or whatever rationale is given for fairness, if it isn't working for the kids, we shouldn't be doing it.
And Jesus, in my opinion, preached that perhaps more emphatically than anything else he said.
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