Author: unitedfamilies

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them.

That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London in which former Tory MP Matthew Parris argues that euthanasia/assisted suicide should not only be permitted — but encouraged.

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It’s Time to Restore Fading Families

Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more.

According to data the Census Bureau gathered in 2020, these were three of the four states that had the highest percentages of households headed by married couples of the opposite sex.

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Marriage Should Not Be the Elephant in the Room

Making the case for two parents is a good starting point, but we would connect the dots to add that the largest benefits come from being married. If the two-parent ideal matters, marriage is the support that helps two different people stick together to do that. This is because marriage is a legal and social institution with a certain set of norms and expectations that increases the likelihood of relationship trust, happiness, and longevity. In other words, marriage is a kind of social technology. Or, as The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson puts it, marriage is like “social fitness.” Without marriage, the two-parent ideal becomes less achievable and less durable, and parents become more lonely and less happy.

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