On 10/3/2017 9:19 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 20:59:15 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2017-10-03 8:10 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marriage is a useful, perhaps vital, institution if one is raising kids. It might not be relevant in a society that no longer cares about raising kids. Not having kids is trending these days. As a matter of fact, so is not being able to have kids. It looks like nature is saying "screw it" to the human race.
>>>
>>> Lots of children are being raised just fine by unmarried parents and
>>> lots of other children are being raised badly by parents who are
>>> married. You hail from the 50s.
>>>
>>
>> Sure, lots of kids are being raised nicely by unmarried parents. There
>> is also a huge number of single parents on welfare and kids pretty much
>> doomed to a life of poverty.
>
> It all depends on the kind of people the parents are, not on whether
> they're married.
>

Also depends on who is really raising the kids. In the case of a single
parent or working parents, it is often the grandmother as the main
influence.