re: #524 Ministry of Fairness and Balance

Getting married and divorcing, even serially, seems to be entirely morally acceptable to those who embrace “traditional family values”.

It is just single unmarried parenthood or unmarried/gay cohabitation that they see as moral evils ready to eat away at the soul of America and causing it to fall out of favor with The Almighty.

Well, Lowry is trying to put the entire thing in terms of social mobility, and the economic benefit to the kids, which is reasonable only if you also consider the impact of parents marrying and separating.

I also think you need to dig a little deeper and explain your stats better. If you’re simply saying that people with college education’s children do better because they marry, and that people with less education would do better economically if they also married, without providing a lot more context, people are going to fill in some gaps there with skepticism.

It’s an interesting area, not one he does credit to, because he seems to think that his gush of assorted stats speaks for itself, and that everyone KNOWS what he means.

I just thought the notion that Michelle Obama becoming Mrs. Marriage Advocate would go over well was a fairly hilarious idea.

It’s hard to critique the piece because there really isn’t much to it.