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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans are dead wrong about what's putting the family at risk.
It's not movies or video games or someone's marriage. It's an economy that makes one have to choose between spending time with with their family or providing for it. And that choice is becoming more mutually exclusive every day.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I grew up with the idea of two income families. Both my grandparents on my mom's side worked. Both my mother and father worked. But, now three income families are becoming more and more common.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)the religion stick which relies on fear and guilt to reinforce the agenda of the religion stick.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)drmeow
(5,024 posts)spend time with family and STILL not being able to provide for it above the poverty level.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)shelter. or maybe in a tent in the woods. or your car.
or an economy that doesn't allow you to marry or have kids because only one person can survive on minimum wage, and the only kind of jobs you can get are jobs that pay minimum or a dollar or two more.
(Speaking of which, I recently saw a secretarial job that proposed to pay minimum wage, no benefits, for 80 wpm typing speed and knowledge of about 8 software programs, + a couple of years of experience.) and required a drug test.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)All of their domestic policies and most of their foreign policy damage American families.