This seems to be a controversial statement, offered without any basis. What characteristics of today’s families (aside from the built in assumption many have that parenthood is their destiny) concern you? What would the ideal family look like, in your view?
I am sorry I did not get back to you, I had pressing personal matters come up.
To me there is more than one “ideal family”, I think there are a number of good family structures. Major points are the core family being much more interconnected with the rest of the family with extended family nearby and frequent contact between them. Retired grandparents would likely live with their kids. Extended families would have much more frequent get togethers, perhaps monthly or depending on the ages more often. People would frequently live with their parents until (if) they married. People would have much deeper friendships and their friendships would serve to bind together families unrelated by blood, for example via baptism.
The nuclear family today has serious issues, that it is considered normal for children to leave the nest as soon as they graduate secondary school is bad, it drives up the housing market and it makes it housing unaffordable. This leads to people moving in with boyfriends and girlfriends. A natural consequence is fornication (sin)which means people are contracepting (sin), having abortions (sin) or having children out of wedlock. Because they have been thrown out at so young an age without the ability to build up assets this leads to financial insecurity and makes young women feel they have to have an abortion else they’ll become impoverished. The shacking up impairs people’s abilities to rationally review marriage partners which leads to more divorce. So the nuclear family combined with pushing kids out on adulthood (a natural product of the nuclear family) leads to the evils of fornication, abortion and divorce which in turn drives people away from the Church. The extended family bonds today are frequently frayed if not nonexistent, combine this with the destruction of friendship as a meaningful institution and you get young people with little to no social support network. When you portray marriage as the greatest thing ever and a benchmark for adulthood this reduces people’s desire to join religious life
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You omitted the next paragraph in my reply post where I addressed that aspect of your question.
How about you answering below, posed to you earlier, but which you did not address.
In other words, are you in favor of transitioning and to what extent in transgender youth under 18 yrs?
Do I support x for children:
Social transition? Yes
Puberty blockers? Yes
Hormones at 16? Yes
Hormones starting from when they’d normally begin puberty? Ambivalent
SRS? Not until 18.
Yes, I did make a counter point in Post 67. Further, you could not challenge the comparison of SRS to Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
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To which I replied
While there are similarities there are also substantial differences. In anorexia nervosa one is not aware of the form of one’s body and believes they are fat which causes distress despite them being excessively thin. In comparison with gender dysphoria one is acutely aware of the form of one’s body and this is the source of distress, for example a transwoman who has not started hormones would almost certainly perceive their body as masculine and rightly so which would cause them substantial distress. Does that make sense?
That I did not challenge it does not mean I am incapable of it.
SRS does not meaningfully reduce ability to function on a day to day basis whereas BIID such as with people who think they should get amputations or be blind frequently substantially reduces ability to function normally in society. Do you find your ability to live a normal life impacted due to not having a penis? Note, I am specifically talking about having a penis and the concept of male privilege is wholly irrelevant to whether your life is impacted.
Is the source the best you can offer? An article by a rabid transgender advocate no less, who transitioned from a man to a woman in 2010, “married” a woman partner, the couple raising three children. The article is featured in HuffPo, which serves as a mouthpiece for any and all gay and transgender issues, through its regular section, Gay Voices.
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Actually I linked her because her links are good.
Notice how she is going five hours and crossing two state lines for it.
