“Kids who grow up with active grandparents involved in their daily lives do far better through their entire lifetime than those deprived of such contacts.”
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“What is evolution “telling” us? Answer: if we’re deprived of love, we wither. If we get “born again” into the religion of greed, we kill ourselves.”
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“…the fake family-values right wing I was part of is actively and practically pro-abortion while also trying to prohibit access. That’s because the right wing has created a world in which actually having a child is discouraged at every turn. Again, this is misogyny, not pro-family, let alone pro-life.”
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“Covid aside, the United States is currently the only industrialized country with no guarantee of paid parental leave, for fathers or mothers, and no state-funded childcare.”
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“Somewhat prophetically, the pre-Covid pandemic studies on fatherhood seemed to predict the results of a 2020 midpandemic study, which showed that 45 percent of American fathers were spending more time on childcare than they did before the pandemic—and liking it.”
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“As the sociologist Jamie K. McCallum writes in ‘Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream’, Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules.”
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“How to turn America into a pro-family, pro-love, and prorelationships country that also has room for other people who do not have or want kids? I think that we have a good practical model for the revolution I’m calling for here, dedicated to embracing love above career, connection ahead of money, and community before greed: the total acceptance, other-oriented sexuality, and deep love modeled in the LGBTQ and nonbinary communities.”
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