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To: LindyBill who wrote (51873)6/28/2004 12:42:08 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793608
 
Destroying marriage by allowing it to accorded to any two humans for any reason will further hurt the raising of childen, IMO. The supposed benefit to the people involved is way offset by the hurt to the kids.

You're getting way ahead of yourself in this argument. You're talking about destroying marriage and hurting kids. I'm talking about the process of problem solving, which involves identifying the most significant variable. That's an exercise in "where the problem is" and "where the problem is not." Proceeding with an assumed key variable thoughtlessly or based on one's gut or because conventional wisdom or some guy on CSPAN so assumes will invalidate all analysis that follows. Why do you leap to marriage when you said yourself that it's the most likely the two parent family?

I can say that marriage is the best way to achieve it.

You can and you did. And I supported that in the context of the current climate.

Your "cohabit" example is a straw man that does not exist in any measurable way. So it is a false analogy.

The cohabitation subset of the population may not be measurable. I think it is, but even if it's not, the most that contributes to the argument is that, well, it's not measurable. That makes it neither a strawman nor a false analogy. Strawmen and false analogies have nothing to do with identifying the most significant variable.

If suitable data are really not available for isolating cohabitation from marriage and you want to use marriage as a proxy for two-parent family, I suppose that could be done carefully for some parts of the process but there's great risk of confusing the two and ending up some ways down the garden path..

What is it about the role of isolating the most significant variable that is so alien?
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