Wisconsin: Single Parenting is Child Abuse

[Tiberius]

I don't know what your problem is with the order of the traditional family.
I'm stating that it's best for a child to be raised with both a father and a mother, in a proper family, and I really don't know what actually sounds wrong in my statement.

The problem with appealing to tradition is that (a) it's a (dangerous) fallacy, and (b) traditions change over time. What is seen as a "traditional" family by some today was certainly not a traditional family 100 years ago, or even 1,000 years ago.

By the way, has anyone read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson? A very powerful short story about the dangers of tradition.

[Autumnlicious]

By the way, has anyone read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson? A very powerful short story about the dangers of tradition.

If I recall correctly, Shirley Jackson got tons of hate mail, some of which was most vile, for that story. A lot of people were totally offended (which was the objective of the story, to make you feel uncomfortable at this mindless inhumanity) and predictably missed the point.

Read that short story in middle school and I still remember being taken aback at how... familiar and American it seemed, like I could imagine it happening here.

[Doubting Thomas]

That short story would make a good Twilight Zone episode.

[8BitAtheist]

Being a part of the religious right is child abuse.