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So the overall advantages of the traditional family with a loving responsible mom and dad in the home, parents who stay married and stay in love, raising the kids:
Studies have shown that overall children in a traditional home tend to be healthier. Perhaps that is because they also are more likely to have access to good health care and also one parent is more likely to keep the child home when he or she is sick.
Note to the woke: That does not mean that children of single parents are not just as healthy but only that statistically they tend to have more health problems.
Fully half the children being raised by a single parent are in low income or poverty status. Fewer than 1 in 10 children raised in the traditional family are financially challenged.
Note to the woke: That does not mean that all children of single parents are low income or poverty status.
Children in traditional homes experience more consistent interaction with both a male and female role model and are more likely to be emotionally stable, comfortable with themselves, more successful in their own relationships, in their own marriages, with their own kids.
Note to the woke: that does not mean people from other types of families cannot be that also. It is just that statistically they are less likely to be.
Children in traditional homes usually live in better, safer neighborhoods, more likely to enjoy expanded opportunities and activities like music and dance lessons, Little League. This may contribute to evidence that overall the children have better cognitive skills, higher academic achievement, more likely to graduate high school and college and enjoy economic prosperity.
Note to the woke: That does not mean that children of other types of families cannot or do not do the same. They just are somewhat less likely to do so.
Children raised in traditional homes with both biological parents present are the demographic with the lowest chance of experiencing psychological, emotional, physical or sexual abuse.
Note to the woke: That does not mean that children are never abused in such families or that children in non traditional families are always abused. It means that statistically children in traditional families are much less likely to endure such abuse than are children in other types of families.
Children from traditional families do not have to divide their loyalties between competing separated parents and separate families or feel abandonment by one or both parents. They are less likely to commit bad acts or use illegal substances, there is less truancy, their circle of friends tends to be more supportive and good influences, they are less likely to be arrested or incarcerated.
Note to the woke: That does not translate to all children from other types of families being emotionally unstable or incapable of good relationships or likely to get in trouble. It is just that children from different types of families have a higher incidence of such negatives.
Certainly there are valid reasons people need to divorce and sometimes that choice is the best choice for the kids. A toxic, abusive home or one afflicted with uncontrolled addictions is not good for anybody. That is why I included the qualifier that children benefit from having both loving responsible biological parents in the home. Many of us did not have that and we made it just fine. Some of us didn't fare so well.
But the bottom line is that children--all children whether straight or gay and of whatever demographic--are blessed when they can grow up with a loving responsible mom and dad in the home. (And wouldn't it be wonderful if the 'woke' had the intellectual honesty to see and acknowledge that instead of trying to make the conversation about anybody or anything else.)
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