Over at Family Scholars, there was a post "Wanna Support Marriage....", which dealt how drug use creates the neglect of children and unemployment places stress on parents to provide for their children. How can I support something in public policy, if I'm not legally allowed to even define it though?
And this is our struggle, we do spend a lot of time discussing what defines the word marriage and what doesn't. I would love to devote all of my extra time talking about all the things that relate to marriage.
There are a lot of great resources I would love to write about, but I'm afraid of dragging other individuals into this debate. For instance, I'm an avid reader of Dear Wendy and her relationship advice. This is what women (and men) talk about. Relationships, primarily marriage. Dealing with the reproductive parts, how to get pregnant or not is really just straight forward. Relationships on the other hand, that isn't.
There's really no chart or guideline on how to establish and create a relationship that can sustain the potential of having and raising children. I love how she helps out, it's not yea or nay, but rather asking the writer to figure out what she needs and the information to know does one invest in this relationship or 'MOA' (Move On Already!).
Now that being said, all sorts of relationships have importance in our lives we have friendships and other non-marital adult relationships that may benefit from discussing healthy relationships, but at what point does a relationship matter so much that public policy steps in? If public policy steps in, then why? And can we as a matter of public policy, realize people have a mom and a dad? Can we value the ideal they should have a united relationship with one another for the benefit of a child without being considered a hatemonger?
Why does it have to be so hard?
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