Notebook per
The Family A Foundation for Moderate Social Individualism
lauren k hall
Citation (APA): hall, l. k. (2017). The Family A Foundation for Moderate Social Individualism [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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The Family: A Foundation for Moderate Social Individualism By Lauren K. Hall
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The political project at its core involves creating communities out of a multitude of individuals.[
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never complete,
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particular desires of individuals,
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political project will always be characterized by conflict.
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there exist institutions, often ignored by political thinkers, that make this balance between individual and community possible.
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blurring or even eradicating the traditional individual/ community dichotomy.
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“intermediate institutions”
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form a kind of buffer between individuals and the communities
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What makes families special is that they are natural
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both biological and cultural bonds
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Our family relationships follow us out into the broader community,
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It is strange, then, that the family has been largely ignored,
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rationalistic hubris
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myriad ways in which families influence politics:
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supply of people through reproduction, marriage as a link between powerful families, familial education in passing down norms and values, nepotism and patronage linked to powerful family lines, inheritance and the movement of property down generations, and the cost of unstable family forms in terms of welfare, criminal justice, and so on.
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x MODI IN CUI LA FAMIGLIA INFLUISCE SULLA POLITICA
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it muddies the theoretical waters.
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Those who emphasize the unlimited freedom of the individual come quickly up against the iron wall of genetics, early childhood development, and family experiences.
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x L ASTRAZIONE DELL INDIVIDUO. ESEMPIO
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We are not free to choose our families
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Ayn Rand
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The family is also one of the only places in the world where the creed “to each according to his need” not only works, but is indispensable.
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family also challenges individualist arguments for personal responsibility
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John Galt’s family was only barely mentioned in Atlas Shrugged.
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families are the root of inequality.
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intimate connection with property rights.
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family is the originator of unequal opportunity.
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its generally hierarchical form,
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natural authority
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The reality of pregnancy, birth, and nursing places further stress on a strict egalitarian division of labor.
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The collective egalitarian cry that the private is really political is inevitably complicated by intimate groups that profoundly affect social structures but that also stubbornly refuse collectivization.
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x NO ALLA POLITICIZZAZIONE
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calls to collectivize and control the family, from Marx and Engels to contemporary liberal feminists like Judith Moller Okin.
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those who prefer a consistency and uniformity
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CHI IRRITA
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We are a mixed bag of selfish and social,
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There are, thankfully, a few moderate thinkers who have appreciated
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Adam Smith in particular,
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theory of society as a kind of spontaneous order
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Smith’s theory, instead of pushing the individual and the community further apart, was instead meant to bridge the gap between individual and community, using expansive self-interest and the natural moral sentiments as building tools.[
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x SMITH
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foundation for both expansive self-interest and the moral sentiments can be found in the family
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our care is not universal,
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human nature does not support a universal benevolence
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This limited sphere of interest is a fundamental limit
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This affection produces a kind of moderation and a restraint that limits revolutionary spirit
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Edmund Burke picks up on Smith’s anti-revolutionary concerns
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Concerned about Lockean individualism run amok
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the myth of all men as “brothers” would lead to a breakdown in the true familial affections
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PREOCCUPAZIONE
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individuals, despite their abstract natural rights, are bound by inherited duties
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PER BURKE
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duties, rooted in our affections
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Burke rejected the idea that the collective can and should replace the family
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an idea laid out most clearly later by Marx and Engels.
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our affections for our families are the foundation for our affection for our communities,
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BURKE
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intergenerational compact protected and transmitted by families preserves
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these authors (and some other classical liberal thinkers like Montesquieu and Hayek) balance individuals and the communities to which they belong through a spontaneous ordering of society, fueled by individual desires, but rooted in the sociality born and bred in family life.
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x FAMIGLIA E ORDINE SPONTANEO
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the anonymous market
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rational planning.
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complex and balanced political theory,
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The family is situated at the intersection of socialization and individuality,
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the family challenges ideological purity
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Humans are not monolithic animals,
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any simplistic political theory will fail
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Responses to Kuznicki and Yenor: Patriarchy and Other Family Forms By Lauren K. Hall
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Kuznicki’s excellent discussion of the link between patriarchy and despotism,
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cornerstone of a pervasive despotism?
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FAMIGLIA COME...
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the patriarchal family cited by Filmer and others is a perfect example of the use and abuse of the family to justify a particular political ideology.
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x FILMER
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God gave man dominion over women and children
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ARG DI FILMER
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we can trace the absolute monarch’s right to rule
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fathers having an absolute right over their children’s lives,
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NESSUNO SOSTIENE CHE
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families that existed, while certainly patriarchal in nature, were much less patriarchal than Filmer’s depiction,
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that eventually helped moderate the claims of absolute monarchy.
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Locke’s response to Filmer is intriguing here, since he uses the family to annihilate Filmer’s claims by recasting familial relations as based entirely on consent.
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x RISP. DI LOCKE A FILMER
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the idea that the family is purely consensual strikes even the most libertarian among us as problematic.
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Locke and Filmer both recast the family to justify a particular kind of political theory,
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Patriarchy is partly the result of the reality that the demands of pregnancy and childbirth create periods of dependence where women need external resources and assistance to survive. In pre-industrial societies, this burden was particularly great. The political, economic, and cultural climates changed over time, however, to limit such dependence. As women gained access to resources and as pregnancy and childbirth became less dangerous and more compatible with working outside the home, women’s dependence on men decreased.
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x ORIGINI DEL PATRIARCATO T
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the rise of what has been called the “companionate marriage,”
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politics impacts families as well, and immoderate politics leads to immoderate families.
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Women’s subordination to men only became complete thanks to state interventions
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denying the property, contract, and other rights
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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a feminist primatologist, argued that, in general, women are the least free of the female great apes since cultural practices can enforce male dominance and patriarchal institutions in a way that males in ape groups cannot.[
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x SCIMMIE IN NATURA
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Response to Scott Yenor
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I believe very strongly in family for its own sake.
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Family is the source of, for many people at least, our deepest attachments, our fondest memories,
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Polygamy, for example, will tend to produce individual- and societal-level results like patriarchal sex-roles and skewed sex-ratios that create imbalances in the family that spill over into the wider community.
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x DIFETTI POLIGAMIA
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Single parenthood too is problematic because it tends to be difficult for a single parent to provide the kind of emotional, financial, and psychological stability children need as they grow.
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x DIFETTI DEL SINGLE
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what I call “moderate monogamy”
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range of family types
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I suspect Yenor would see same-sex marriage as a rejection of the natural coupling
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I instead see such marriage as the culmination of the natural desire for conjugal bonding and reproduction.
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I argue for a family that fulfills our desires as social individuals,
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understanding of human flourishing and the goods
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we defend the family from the extremely pernicious argument that the family’s activities are replaceable by government activity.
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Responses on Procreation and Same-Sex Marriage By Lauren K. Hall
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Scott argues that the fact that so few children live with non-biological relatives suggests that “sex, procreation, and education are all related somehow. The old view would be that sex and procreation are united under a larger institution called marriage or monogamy.”
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x TESI PROCRAZ E EDUCSZIONE
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Of course they’re related,
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Now, of course, things have changed.
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Most of my gay friends desire children and have sought out the means to have children,
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through sperm donation, surrogacy, or adoption.
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How those children get here seems less important to me than how they are loved once they arrive.
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The failure of the family as transmitter of manners and mores requires more state intervention in the family and the erosion of the character that prevents the need for government intervention in other areas of life.
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x SBAGLIARE IL TIPO DI FAMIGLIA FA IRROMPERE LO STATO
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No Substitutes for the Family By Lauren K. Hall
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The family is crucial for individual development.
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Right now, at least, it cannot be replaced.
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why can’t we replace the family with other things?
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ultimate explanation for this is rooted in evolutionary theory,
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family is absolutely necessary for human development of every kind.
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Children learn not only language and cultural norms from their parents, but also how to manage emotions, communicate, and trust. The incredible intelligence held as potential in our genes is useless until it is released, usually within the first two years of life, by interactions with loving, committed adults.
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x A COSA SERVE LA FAMIGLIA
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the developmental argument for the family is that individual humans need the family to be successful humans.
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This of course does not mean that there are not terrible families
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children who survive such families usually do so because there is someone else,
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But such stories are rare because the kind of commitment required to replace the family is so great that such commitment is rarely extended to non-kin.
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families are also the source of some of the deepest human joys
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IN SÈ
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Families, for most people, give life meaning.
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The family makes life worth living.
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it can also make life unbearable when it is corrupted.
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A Practical Approach to Family Policy By Lauren K. Hall
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how we can encourage or defend such monogamy without relying on government nudges
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incentivizing marriage does not seem to do much.
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many people are getting married and staying together.
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Those people tend to be middle class individuals with college educations.
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why some groups marry and stay married so much more than others.
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Some bemoan the welfare state as become a replacement for stable relationships,
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PERCHÈ LA CRISI DELLA FAMIGLIA
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take a closer look at sex ratios among lower class individuals.
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lower class men are failing at life at significantly higher levels than lower class women.
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FALLITI
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They are less likely to get an education, less likely to have stable jobs, and more likely to engage in risky behavior like drug and alcohol addiction and criminal activity.
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x FALLIMENTO DEI BETA
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Hanna Rosin famously declared the End of Men
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the pool of acceptable marriage partners is skewed.
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CHI SE LI SPOSA?
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far more marriageable women than there are marriageable men in lower income
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There are, by some estimates, as many as 1.5 million missing black males due to a combination of violence and incarceration. In some neighborhoods, this means there may be as many as 140 black women for every 100 black men.
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x NERI
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Monogamy is simply not possible under these circumstances.
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the demise of the black family started well before mass incarceration,
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Imbalanced sex ratios impact the way men operate as well.
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marriageable men have no incentive to commit.
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Men in these circumstances know women don’t have many options,
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Such a situation makes both men and women unhappy
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we need to discuss, as Steve has, the kinds of government policies that affect sex ratios,
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few proposals
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Eliminate drug policies that take men away from their families and that skew sex ratios, making monogamous pairing impossible. Provide more opportunities for working class men to get jobs. This may include eliminating or reducing certification and licensing laws that prevent people from entering various occupations that in themselves may require little formal education. While we’ve made it easier than ever to be incarcerated, we’ve also made it harder and harder to get a job or start a business.
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x PROPOSTE
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The emphasis on college degrees has pushed people away from skilled labor,
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Finally, reassess welfare benefits that create a marriage tax on the poor.
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