Is Dion the counterpart of Kerry?

[betsy]

Here's a flip flips in four days. Tueaday: RCMP Commissioner has Harper's support. Friday: Commissioner doesn't have Harper's support! Bwahahaha-ha-ha Flip flop!

Guiness record for sure!

Nice try. But it doesn't compare to the idea behind Dion's back-to-back flipflops.

Yours is like saying...

Tuesday: Mom, this is my bestfriend Fred.

Friday: Fred is no longer my bestfriend. I caught him smooching my girlfriend.

That's not a flipflop. That's sound decision!

[betsy]

No. My opinion is that we're embarking on a disastrous and un-thought-out experiment in how we create families and raise children. Children traditionally grew up with a male and female role model, each of which contributed different things. Now?????

Your opinion of disaster is not well thought out.

Some marriages caused more damage to children than if a woman or man raised their children alone. And even traditionally, a child was often raised by one parent when one of the parents died.

I'm sorry your traditional world doesn't include gay people either. I suppose you think their children should be taken away?

It will take years before we see the impact this may have on the children being raised by gays.

Just like it took years before we saw the impact of the divorce act....which we are seeing now!

[stignasty]

It will take years before we see the impact this may have on the children being raised by gays.

Just like it took years before we saw the impact of the divorce act....which we are seeing now!

Could you provide links to the studies that support your contention of a negative impact to divorce act?

thanks

[betsy]

It will take years before we see the impact this may have on the children being raised by gays.

Just like it took years before we saw the impact of the divorce act....which we are seeing now!

Could you provide links to the studies that support your contention of a negative impact to divorce act?

thanks

Does it have to be negative?

Anyway, some impact on society need no studies. All you've got to do is look around you. One very prominent impact is the abundance of SINGLE PARENTS. And children coming from single parent households. The need for social programs that greatly target single parents and their children.

The lifestyle of children from divorced couples, the custody arrangements, the adjustments to their parents' new lifestyles as well, etc..,

Then there are the extended families....inter-linked affiliations (dad's girlfriend's children's grandparents, and you get the pic).

Anyway, one link I can provide is this:

"Re-examining the impact of no-fault divorce

Even a casual observer of the American scene can see the conservative trends that are seeking to reverse the social policies of the 1960s and '70s, ranging from state welfare programs and affirmative action policies to abortion rights. Another campaign being waged in state legislatures is the effort to get rid of no-fault divorce. While we should certainly be wary of trends, which often replace vigorous debate with one-dimensional ideologies, neither should we grant privileged status to the status quo. I think that the current debate over toughening our divorce laws is a healthy one, and deserves our renewed attention.

In the late '60s and '70s, most states adopted the policy of no-fault divorce, which meant that either party to marriage could sue for divorce with only the claim of "irreconcilable differences." This created the situation of unilateral divorce: either member of the union, upon feeling the urge to dissolve it, was free to leave.

The original intention of relaxing the divorce laws was to allow individuals trapped in bad marriages to exit easily. However, as noble as this objective may have been, demographers' surveys have shown that the number of unhappy marriages has not dwindled; to the contrary, there are far fewer happy marriages. As Maggie Gallagher, the author of "The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love," recently reported in The New York Times, recent studies have linked no-fault divorce with the steep rise in the rate of divorce over the last 25 years. Even the effort to make divorce less bitter failed; Judith Wallerstein's studies indicate that five years after the divorce, 50 percent of all couples were still engaged in conflict."

http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchiv...rst_person.html

[jdobbin]

That's not a flipflop. That's sound decision!

Income trusts was another flip flop. When in election, no tax on income trusts. In government, tax the trusts!

Even Albertans can't stand the betrayal, the outright lie, the flip flop!

[jdobbin]

It will take years before we see the impact this may have on the children being raised by gays.

Just like it took years before we saw the impact of the divorce act....which we are seeing now!

Should divorce be a abolished?