tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982472831794132383.post5172129640240851686..comments2023-10-29T07:44:49.963-04:00Comments on Worshipping at the Church of Non-Realism: My Response to Bob Y’s comment on “Sex at Dawn”Pete Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17003978838276701270noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982472831794132383.post-8298201005659389332011-01-23T14:17:26.590-05:002011-01-23T14:17:26.590-05:00Without in any way wanting to gainsay the importan...Without in any way wanting to gainsay the importance of children's stable relationships with their parents (and knowing first- and second-hand what a loss it is when those relationships shift unreliably), I'd suggest as well that we might consider how the data on such issues presupposes that children either get what they need from parents, or else aren't likely to get it at all. If more complex webs of adult relationships were available to kids, and if kids' zones of safety extended beyond the nuclear family's domestic space, then the stakes around parental stability would perhaps not be so desperately high in the first place. We've seen such additional supports erode even further within living memory, and surely fundamentalist screeds on the sanctity of family have been in signficant part a myopic and uncomprehending response to that erosion.David Townsendhttp://anchorholder.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com