I doubt it. 15 15 15
what about making it legitimate?
marriage makes it legitimate. A child is better off with two married parents who love each other and the child
how do you know?
Unwed fathers receive an encouraging smile from me. I have met men who either have custody of their children or are fighting to receive some form of custody. Good to know men expect to raise families even if single for awhile.
That is such a bs.
When I was 8 I told the neighbor boy how he was made. He was also 8. He got chocked and refused to believe me. When I was 9 I was âofferedâ by a guy to take my virginity while everyone were smoking pot. I said no. I grew up in something you could call a âGetthoâ. Grown ups never saw what happened around them. Gang wars, substance abuse and stuff.
Just ask the child
who grows up with 4 (at least) bedrooms in 4 different houses,
one each in the momâs, dadâs, and both sets of grandparents-assuming they are still married.
so you think it has an affect on the child then?
My parents divorced and Iâm happy about it. My mother didnât deserve that â â â â . And my father should be a free man.
The data supports the idea that a child is probably better taken care of by two people who love each other - just because they are more likely to be able to handle all the chores and not get too stressed out.
Lots of great people born out of wedlock - and Iâve never seen any data to show that marriage is better than non-marriage couples in caring for babies. In the US marriage is more common than in Europe so its partly a cultural issue.
Also - in much of Europe they have very good social support services which means that a single parent can still get great child care, and support - and doesnât fall into poverty. That isnât the case in the US and many other parts of the world.
Marriage can help in that issue (poverty) because the guy/partner is forced by law to provide for mother and child if they ever get divorced.
Anyway - people, please donât push this discussion into value judgements on people. Everyoneâs life is different - please be accepting of the people here.
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What about emotional development? Just as good with one parent?
I had very explicit âhands onâ sex ed starting around the age of five. To this day I canât understand what kind of animal finds this kind of thing to be okay.
Count your blessings.
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My peers were my teachers. That was OK with me.
i had a good upbringing,
we were poor but we got by
mum and dad were married throughout
my mum is a widow now
My nephew turned out pretty decent despite growing up in 4different houses in 4 different cities with a bedroom at both sets of grandparents house and one at his motherâs and one at his fatherâs.
I donât understand how he could have remembered all the rules or addresses and phone numbers for each place.
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did you know that the real discoverer of dna was a woman working for drâs crick and watson? they stole her work and touted it as their own. the mathematician on the apollo 11 moon landing calculus? a woman. marie curie?..funnily enough, a woman., the first female dr, elizabeth fry was allowed into medical school to âproveâ that women werenât intelligent enough to be drs let alone consultants. her image now adorns the back of the five pound note in the uk. florence nightingale, ridiculed by all the male drs around her for her insistence on clean hospital wards to ward off infection. she proved her point with statistics, how? because she was also a brilliant mathematician. einstein himself creditsâŚyupâŚyou guessed itâŚa woman as being the most brilliant mathematician of the twentieth century. women were not allowed to attend universities or colleges until the twentieth century and you claim to be superior for holding women back in every field of science and technology??? shame on you!
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You nailed it @jaynebeal !
Its nothing but â â â â â â â ignorance. Just to google a little bit about womens historyâŚ
âTheyâ did invent a stuff cause they got an opportunity to.
women were considered as less-human. Non-males.
Mr.Freud and â â â â
Et cetera
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My parents were married. Divorced when I was 16. Dad was physically and mentally abusive on us children and mom. Mom should have left him earlier. But she was not stong enough. She had to hit rock bottom first. I was a mess from age 15. Paranoid, voices. Was about to kill my dad but had a chance to escape. Kids to married parents are not always the happiest ones. We also were poor. Dad worked and mom studied. Sometimes we did not have food on the table.
My parentsâ marriage wasnât 'happy. Now a days they might have divorced. But back then marriage was about for better or worse. And they stayed together. Iâm glad for that stability and feeling of safety in a changing world⌠They werenât abusive to each other or us kids. I learned some not so good things through that. But lifeâs not a rose garden.