With a compromise and it was called the private option. To make a long story short, it was about taking the Medicaid Expansion dollars that were available but using them to purchase private insurance on the Health Insurance exchange. This was a really innovative approach. It didnt mean that it passed easily. I think we had to take about six or seven votes mainly because extremes on both sides we were just hear about were pretty dug in on the issue. I will tell you even though we were able to pass the private option, there were members of both parties who lost elections as a result afterwards, just in 2014. People were primaried, people instrumental passing that policy lost their elections but ill tell you, im a democrat. I was for moving forward with the expansion from the beginning but part of, i think one. Biggest things we had to do on our side was keep our mouth shut and not put the other side in two difficult of a position as well. Again i see a lot of nodding heads, but i respect
Parenthood. And i use the word drifting, very cautiously, because i think thats a lot of whats happening. This is unplanned pregnancies and births, but in the samesex world, by definition, when people have kids, they do it by choice. Now we had another very interesting chapter on the extent to which marriage matters for child wellbeing. Is a child who grows up in a twoparent family better off than a child that grows up in a oneparent family . Are children in married families better off than children in cohabiting families, and this adds to all the literature on those issues, and basically all of that literature, of which theres a ton now, has led, i think, presiden think, pretty much to a consensus that on average, on average, growing up in a twoparent married family is better for kids than not. That said, you have to then ask, well, why should marriage matter . And one reason it matters is simply because the people who marry are a selfselected group. They have other characteristics li
Could do that, but it wouldnt fully replace the benefits that children now derive from marriage itself. We had a lot of debate around the production of the volume and amongst the authors about whether or not or why theres been this decline. Everybody agreed there was a decline. The issue is why. And these are the usual factors that get debated and talked about. Womens new opportunities have made them clearly less dependent on marriage. Its no longer something they need for their economic wellbeing. And then theres the argument that men, especially lesseducated men, have not been doing well in the labor market. Declining employment and earnings. And that has made them less marriageable. And this the lack of marriageable men, it is argued, has been a contributing factor to the decline in marriage. Finally, there are arguments about whether Government Programs are inhibiting marriage, because if you marry somebody that has additional income, you may become ineligible for various programs,
I had a conversation a few years africa aboutaharan human sexuality. Were deeply into it. Theiristened, sense of betrayal you have to let yourself be touched by that. You cannot reject it as a direct s an ignorant view. Part of the dialogue is a dialogue that has great pain. We must let ourselves be hurt. Because i with it like all of us i dont like to be hurt. I dont like to feel pain. I go a long way to avoid it, emotional pain particularly. Does that make any sense . Very much. Tom im afraid we have to close it down now. The archbishop has to be leaving. One final thought. We have been talking a lot about issues climate change, migration, violence better handled by secular institutions. Do you see any challenge, danger in the church becoming too secularized by its focus on these institutions . What you mentioned is very important. The importance of not soft peddling. Archbishop welby i think there is. Us,ink making people like we can end up saying the wrong thing about everything. N
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