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+Reaver	Jan 2 2008, 12:05 AM
Troll Posts: 8,614 Group: Advisor Member #47 Joined: June 9, 2005	Sentenal I think it would be safe to say that families with 2 able-adults providing and taking care of their family would be able to create a better growing environment than just one. To me, its just simple logic. It's very simple logic and doesn't consider variables, such as the parents involved, the job held by the parents, the neighborhood, the child's other influences, et cetera. Sentenal Somewhat true, but because there are two adults, its allows both of those two adults to work. In times of economic hardships, both parents can work. When both are working, they have the same problem single parent families have, in terms nuturing, but they would lack the economic problems a single parent family would have. Except you're assuming that a single parent family doesn't have a reliable job that can cover maybe 1-4 people. It's not like all single parents work behind the register at a fast food joint. Sentenal And its not really generalizing. Its a fact that the parent single parent families basically have to do the duties of a two parent traditional family, trying to get the same result. Its only natural that problems in actually doing all those functions would arise. I would say "may arise" rather than "would arise"; it seems odd to insinuate that one parent cannot work and support a child's development because it very much depends on the parent. Two parents can share duties of raising a child and this is the main boon to a traditional family, but this isn't necessary when one parent can do this and we shouldn't say the traditional family is the primary reason because it isn't. Sentenal There, the articles says its going against conventional wisdom. Plus, it IS just one study. And it DOES say conventional wisdom says otherwise. Context. Ferguson says this, but his study points to different, more important factors on the effects of children and their development. Conventional wisdom isn't going to overtake a study, especially a larger study with 1000 people. Sentenal Like I said, there are exceptions to everything. Traditional families are NOT perfect. There is no perfect family structure. Single Parent families don't always screw up. But I think its safe to say traditional families have a better chance of raising good kids than single parent families You never answered the question: "Exceptions? To what?" Two parents may be more capable than a single parent, and I agree with this portion, but I don't see why that warrants the "traditional family" as a moral in society because it clearly isn't a necessary piece when it breaks down to what is utilitarian and keeps a society running.
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