Most people in America benefit from a loving -legally married- mother AND father. But it is not fair that millions of poor kids are dependent on not one but TWO dysfunctional parents . Capitalism encourages the perverse notion of children as private property and therefore private responsibility. Nuclear families live in isolated, self-centered social " bubbles " preoccupied with vapid consumerism- a breeding ground for a nation of neurotics.
Asking a poor kid with dysfunctional parents " what do you want to be when you grow up ? " is a mean spirited joke.
Idealizing the present day nuclear family is as fatuous as idealizing the FREE MARKET - which is often clueless about social justice or even social sanity.
The blind acceptance of the capitalist way of life is just not very intelligent and not very ethical. And yet the public schools and " higher education " colleges and universities graduate thousands of students every year who cannot even imagine a social system or a " way of life " much different from that of capitalist America. And in a UNIVERSE in which CHANGE is the great law.
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