The Batlord

As the son of a single parent I'm not gonna **** on single parents, as the burden of being the one who's responsible for a life can lead to that person really rising to the occasion, but the idea that one good, dedicated, loving parent is as good as TWO good, dedicated, loving parents is obviously dumb. If my dad weren't a piece of **** then clearly I would have been better off if he'd stayed.

Of course, if I could have been born into a polygamous family of non-mormons who were into that **** because of personal rather than religious beliefs, people who were totally into the relationship and who treated all the kids produced by the relationship as if they were their own, then **** yeah I might be even better off with five or ten parents.

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William_the_Bloody

Well I am with you there Batlord in that I was in the same boat, but the statistics for success rates among children raised by single parents is brutal. From everything, to high school graduation rates, income, crime rates, early pregnancy, they' re are all badly in the negatives.

Whether this has to do with a lack of male guidance & discipline, or males raised by single moms not having the patriarchal values installed to be successful in a competitive society, or the general low income of single moms...I don't know???

All I know is that people who came from good two parent families should thank their lucky stars. I came out okay in the end, but I would most likely be way father ahead in life, had I had a positive father figure around from the start.

The Batlord

Don't forget that people who have a parent that is to some extent absent are likely to develop self-esteem issues (I know I did). When you're a kid with a parent who just bailed you can't help but irrationally wonder if it's you that drove that father/mother away. That's powerful **** that will likely stick with you your entire life no matter how good you turn out.

Freudian slip?

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William_the_Bloody

Freudian indeed, I can't be bothered to proofread.

Yes that's rough to. I wish the statistics didn't point the way they do, but its' the harsh reality.

Chula Vista

Hillary Clinton

First ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley College.
Distinguished graduate of Yale Law School.
Editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.
Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
Former civil litigation attorney.
Staff attorney for Children’s Defense Fund.
Faculty member in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas.
Former Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic.
First female chair of the Legal Services Corporation.
First female partner at Rose Law Firm, the oldest and one of the largest law firms in Arkansas.
Twice named by The National Law Journal as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.
Former First Lady of Arkansas.
Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983.
Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession.
Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth.
Instrumental in passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
First Lady of the United States.
Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses.
Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome).
Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.
Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
First FLOTUS in US History to hold a postgraduate degree.
Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.
Two-term New York Senator and the first ex-FLOTUS in US History to be elected to the United States Senate.
Served on five Senate committees: Budget (2001–2002), Armed Services (2003–2009), Environment and Public Works (2001–2009), Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (2001–2009) and the Special Committee on Aging.
Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Leading role in investigating the health issues faced by 9/11 first responders.
Worked with Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment.
Former United States Secretary of State.
Brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in 2012.

Donald Trump

Building a wall across the southern border that Mexico is supposedly going to pay for.
The deportation, by force if necessary, of 11 million undocumented immigrants (and stop saying “illegal”, you jackass).
Banning and deporting all members of a religious faith that total over 1 billion adherents worldwide, even if they are American citizens, because “everybody knows” they’re just a bunch of murdering terrorists.
Lists among his associates known white supremacists and eugenicists.
Speaks admiringly of ruthless foreign despots and encourages espionage against the United States by hostile governments.
Ruminates about not defending our NATO allies against Russian invasion.
States openly and freely that using nuclear weapons should always be an option simply to make him more “unpredictable”. That’s not a strategy. That’s insanity.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”