Are strong families good? One Democrat pol who thought so years ago can't say that now

One of the biggest problems facing America is the increase in the number of murderous young thugs.  This increase seems to be due mainly to the increase in the number of single-parent families. 

While a lot of Americans intuitively understand this, the leaders of one of our two major political parties seem to reject this concept.  For example, while some children raised by single mothers do well, it's a core belief among Democrat leaders that children raised by single mothers have essentially the same outcomes as those raised in conventional "nuclear families."  If you dare to quote statistics saying that's false, Dems scream that you're a racist, sexist, a hater--which is what they always do when they don’t want to talk about something.

But at least one top Democrat politician has thought deeply about this more than a decade ago, and even wrote an entire book on the subject. See if you can guess who that was.

All right, time’s up.

It was Elizabeth Warren.

Back in 2003, before Warren was elected to the senate, she and her daughter wrote a book entitled, “The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.” The central thesis was that the mass entry of mothers into the workforce has been a disaster for families, and for women.

Mothers who work outside the home have to spend far more time away from their kids.  Feminists claim this is "liberating," but is it?  Middle-class families don’t seem happier or more secure than they were a generation ago. If anything, much less.

In her book Warren points out that although you’d think two-income families would be much richer, that hasn’t happened.  Warren puts it this way:

“A generation ago, a single breadwinner who worked diligently and spent carefully could assure his family a comfortable position in the middle class. But the frenzied bidding wars, fueled by families with two incomes, changed the game for single-income families as well, pushing them down the economic ladder.

To keep Mom at home, the average single-income family must forfeit decent public schools and preschools, health insurance, and college degrees, leaving themselves and their children with a tenuous hold on their middle-class dreams. Such pressures have taken these women out of the home and away from their children and simultaneously made family life less, not more, financially secure. Today’s middle-class mother is trapped: She can't afford to work, and she can't afford not to.”

Significantly, today Elizabeth Warren can’t openly discuss the things she claims to have believed 10 years ago. No modern Democrat can. They can’t say that protecting and encouraging married, two-parent families is an extremely desirable goal--because that’s not their base anymore.

Just to restate, the quote above isn't a position paper from some Christian group.  Instead it was written fairly recently by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts--a hero to the left.

Later in the book Warren lays out the long-term consequences of an economic system that requires both parents to work:  More people simply decide not to have children at all.  Which of course is what we're seeing in the U.S. today.

Warren’s response to this is striking:

“Many view parenthood as nothing more than another ‘lifestyle choice’...[but] what happens to a nation that rewards the childless and penalizes parents?  If middle-class men and women stop [choosing to be parents, who will] keep the economy afloat? And most important, who will populate the great middle class of America's future?”

Again, and we can’t say this enough: Elizabeth Warren wrote that. Not in 1936, but in 2003. The modern era. We had jet planes and frozen yogurt.  Elizabeth Warren wrote that.  Nobody seemed to find that objectionable or outrageous.  But of course that was before she became a Democrat senator. 

She’d never say or write that today.  It’s not allowed, like so much else that’s true and important.
She can’t talk about the things she believed 10 years ago. No modern Democrat can. They can’t say that protecting and encouraging married, two-parent families is a desired goal--because that’s not their base anymore.

H/T Tucker Carlson