Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.
Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.
Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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