Liberal admits: Dan Quayle was Right (unemployed, Congress, Brown, Kerry)

[mysticaltyger]

This woman is from the left-leaning Brookings Institute think tank and here's the headline for her op-ed piece:

Twenty Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms | Brookings Institution

She notes that cohabitating relationships are more fragile and more likely to break up, which is devastating economically.

She also notes:

Second, a wealth of research strongly suggests that marriage is good for children. Those who live with their biological parents do better in school and are less likely to get pregnant or arrested. They have lower rates of suicide, achieve higher levels of education and earn more as adults. Meanwhile, children who spend time in single-parent families are more likely to misbehave, get sick, drop out of high school and be unemployed.


I don't agree with a lot of what Dan Quayle says, especially on the gay issue, but he really was right 20 years about about the devastating effects of having kids without being married, but he was demonized by the liberal media and Hollywood.

[tluv00]

I thought you were going to say it really was spelled potatoe

[filihok]

Originally Posted by mysticaltyger

Those who live with their biological parents do better in school and are less likely to get pregnant or arrested. They have lower rates of suicide, achieve higher levels of education and earn more as adults. Meanwhile, children who spend time in single-parent families are more likely to misbehave, get sick, drop out of high school and be unemployed.

What does any of this have to do with marriage?

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by mysticaltyger

This woman is from the left-leaning Brookings Institute think tank and here's the headline for her op-ed piece:

Twenty Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms | Brookings Institution

She notes that cohabitating relationships are more fragile and more likely to break up, which is devastating economically.

She also notes:

Second, a wealth of research strongly suggests that marriage is good for children. Those who live with their biological parents do better in school and are less likely to get pregnant or arrested. They have lower rates of suicide, achieve higher levels of education and earn more as adults. Meanwhile, children who spend time in single-parent families are more likely to misbehave, get sick, drop out of high school and be unemployed.


I don't agree with a lot of what Dan Quayle says, especially on the gay issue, but he really was right 20 years about about the devastating effects of having kids without being married, but he was demonized by the liberal media and Hollywood.

So? What would you or she propose to do about it? Government mandated shotgun weddings?

[DewDropInn]

Lol, Dan Quayle was so big on family values his son Ben, running for Congress, showed his kids in his campaign ads telling everyone what a family man he was. Proud papa. Problem was.... he had no kids. Nothing says old-fashioned family values like using a couple of kids who aren't yours to try and fool the electorate.

[F40]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

Lol, Dan Quayle was so big on family values his son Ben, running for Congress, showed his kids in his campaign ads telling everyone what a family man he was. Proud papa. Problem was.... he had no kids. Nothing says old-fashioned family values like using a couple of kids who aren't yours to try and fool the electorate.

So true, And they kicked his teabaggin azz to the curb this past primary election

[Dale Cooper]

Originally Posted by mysticaltyger

This woman is from the left-leaning Brookings Institute think tank and here's the headline for her op-ed piece:

Twenty Years Later, It Turns Out Dan Quayle Was Right About Murphy Brown and Unmarried Moms | Brookings Institution

She notes that cohabitating relationships are more fragile and more likely to break up, which is devastating economically.

She also notes:

Second, a wealth of research strongly suggests that marriage is good for children. Those who live with their biological parents do better in school and are less likely to get pregnant or arrested. They have lower rates of suicide, achieve higher levels of education and earn more as adults. Meanwhile, children who spend time in single-parent families are more likely to misbehave, get sick, drop out of high school and be unemployed.


I don't agree with a lot of what Dan Quayle says, especially on the gay issue, but he really was right 20 years about about the devastating effects of having kids without being married, but he was demonized by the liberal media and Hollywood.

I've been saying this for years. Whenever I see a cover of a checkout magazine touting some cheap, unmarried Hollywood star's 'baby bump' or hear about another floozy going on welfare because she can't afford to be a single mom, I say two words: "Murphy Brown".

Few people these days even know what or who I'm talking about.

Yes, Dan was 100% correct.

[kerrymac]

Yes the great liberal family value system is doing wonders for this country..

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by kerrymac

Yes the great liberal family value system is doing wonders for this country..

Yeah, and the "conservative," right-wing, Evangelical Christian value system it doing wonders too, right?

Let me count the ways:

1. Roughly 40% of women sitting in church today have had abortions.

2. Teenage pregnancy affects the Church too.

3. Instead of old fashioned adultery, we have serial adultery in the Church. 50% of church members have been married before.

[HistorianDude]

Gosh... maybe Dan Quayle should be the Republican nominee?