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Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by lapcat on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:30PM (#35225488)
> Keeping universal insight a secret

Marriage is hardly a secret.

> Suppose nobody told you how difficult single parenthood is

I think you can guess. Anyway, that's not a secret either.

People are aware of these things. The options are not sermonization or censorship; that's a false dichotomy.

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Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by ip26 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:44PM (#35225639)
Sure, people guess. And I expect most still underestimate it by a country mile. It isn’t very openly discussed, because no one wants to impinge involuntarily single-parenthood households.

Being vaguely aware that “single-parenthood is harder than two-parenthood” does not count as informed.

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Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by lapcat on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:53PM (#35225724)
> It isn’t very openly discussed

We're openly discussing it right now.

I'm truly baffled by the idea that it isn't openly discussed.

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Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by lodi on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:37AM (#35247732)
GP isn't saying that this topic is literally censored; he's saying that discussing it is taboo, and increasingly so.
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Re:For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters by lapcat on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:45AM (#35247848)
> he's saying that discussing it is taboo, and increasingly so.

It's not though. There's no evidence of that.

In fact, the very claim "no one wants to impinge involuntarily single-parenthood households" is itself an ironic admission that the difficulties of single-parent households are obvious to everyone.

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