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algorias | 1 year ago

The OP means that kids raised by married parents have better life outcomes. The policy proposals that would follow from this (e.g. restricting divorce) are right-leaning positions outside the overton window.

But even beyond a specific policy proposal, there is a viewpoint in right-leaning circles that atomized individualism has caused lasting damage to the fabric of society and needs to be reigned in.

(NB: I can't speak to whether the claim that kids have better outcomes because their parents are married is actually true, as there are obvious confounders there)

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Nasrudith|1 year ago

The funny thing is that I see complaints most about individualism from the left. It might be something more obvious on a non-monoaxis model.

epgui|1 year ago

How can you know what OP meant? The best any of us can do is guess.

RangerScience|1 year ago

> (e.g. restricting divorce)

I am so confused by the right. Aren't they usually in favor of things promoting freedoms, like freedom of association?

epgui|1 year ago

> Aren't they usually in favor of things promoting freedoms

Definitely not in a general sense. They place more importance on some freedoms than on others.