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kuangningYou'd make sure the family's breadwinner(s) got paid a living wage. Couples run into problems because of financial strain more than anything else.
You'd tackle the problem of domestic violence so that people felt safe with their partners, or prospective partners.
You'd make sure healthcare was available, because the stress of caring for a sick loved one -- and their medical bills -- can wreck a family.
You'd make sure quality childcare was available and affordable as the norm instead of the exception, so that people felt comfortable going out to work to earn that aforementioned living wage.
You'd make sure employers offered enough time off to accomodate their workers who have families to care for, so the issue of absentee parents and latchkey children wouldn't be so common. Latchkey children tend to become problem children, and differences on how to deal with them can tear their parents' relationship apart. The stress of wondering if (or, y'know, knowing that) you're going to lose your job because your kid's been too sick for daycare all week long and you didn't have any sick days doesn't make for family harmony, either.
You'd make sure health insurance would cover at least some family counseling as a rule.
There'd be a waiting period between when someone could get a marriage license and when they were allowed to use it. No getting married on a drunken night or "just for fun".
There'd be a full battery of drug- and STD- tests with the results revealed to both partners as a part of the process of getting the marriage license.
There'd probably be some lessons on handling basic household finances in there too.
Teenage girls who got pregnant would be advised to seek counseling and there'd be support available for them as a rule, instead of the push to marry the child's father that there often is now. Just because you had sex and proved fertile together doesn't mean you ought to be in a relationship for life.
Divorce would be harder to get.
... but hey, those things are hard, so instead of doing any of that, I suppose pushing a Constitutional amendment to make sure those horrible gays get excluded will suffice.
I have nothing more to say on this topic.
You'd tackle the problem of domestic violence so that people felt safe with their partners, or prospective partners.
You'd make sure healthcare was available, because the stress of caring for a sick loved one -- and their medical bills -- can wreck a family.
You'd make sure quality childcare was available and affordable as the norm instead of the exception, so that people felt comfortable going out to work to earn that aforementioned living wage.
You'd make sure employers offered enough time off to accomodate their workers who have families to care for, so the issue of absentee parents and latchkey children wouldn't be so common. Latchkey children tend to become problem children, and differences on how to deal with them can tear their parents' relationship apart. The stress of wondering if (or, y'know, knowing that) you're going to lose your job because your kid's been too sick for daycare all week long and you didn't have any sick days doesn't make for family harmony, either.
You'd make sure health insurance would cover at least some family counseling as a rule.
There'd be a waiting period between when someone could get a marriage license and when they were allowed to use it. No getting married on a drunken night or "just for fun".
There'd be a full battery of drug- and STD- tests with the results revealed to both partners as a part of the process of getting the marriage license.
There'd probably be some lessons on handling basic household finances in there too.
Teenage girls who got pregnant would be advised to seek counseling and there'd be support available for them as a rule, instead of the push to marry the child's father that there often is now. Just because you had sex and proved fertile together doesn't mean you ought to be in a relationship for life.
Divorce would be harder to get.
... but hey, those things are hard, so instead of doing any of that, I suppose pushing a Constitutional amendment to make sure those horrible gays get excluded will suffice.
I have nothing more to say on this topic.
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Date: 2006-06-06 04:14 am (UTC)Precise and complete. Harsh, and well put.
We need intelligent and kind people to actually ACT, (effectively) for once. Okay, it has happened before. It shall happen again. But NOT ENOUGH, ARRRGH.
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Date: 2006-06-06 01:55 pm (UTC)Adrian
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Date: 2006-07-04 11:09 pm (UTC)Finally expanding outward enough to find people I used to connect with, on here. Used to be olna_jenn.
...hi.
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Date: 2006-09-23 01:29 am (UTC)I have odd feelings about divorce and the ease of dissolving a marriage, especially if there are children involved. It's not easy, as you know, but I wish there were required provisions for continued communication between a child's parents, especially some kind of provision for counseling of the parents AS the parents.