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Family Values - Rockridge Nation Video Series

George Lakoff examines progressive and conservative family values, and what they mean to American politics, in the second episode of the Rockridge Nation video series.  
 
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thefakeyeti (2 months ago) Show Hide
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One year mat erniety leavel for each child? I think that is bogus..

If you want children badly enough, either find a partner who works different hours than you (That is what my parents did)

Or get your finances together and work towards being able to afford it..

Also, who pays for the leave? If it is on the employer, I picture this adding additional discrimination against young women, afteralll why higher HER if you might be forced to pay for her to do nothing that benefits you?
thefakeyeti (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Basically, anyone is capable of having children..

It sounds like places like europe want an easy way out

By shoving their responsibilities towards other people.

Now, I guess I am not sure EXACTLY how maternity leave works, maybe I speak from ignorance..

I would be for mandotory leave, WITH OUT PAY.

As in, they are legally gauranteed their jobs back..
barrilixx (4 months ago) Show Hide
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You don't understand what the phrase "family values" means.

Imagine two flow charts. The EU version: each citizen is a member of a nation-state, the basic political unit. It cares & provides for you. You must do as it says, sacrifice for it, respect its authority to tell you how to live your life.

US version: it is the family, not the national govt, that is the basic unit, that cares for etc., & each family has the right to determine for itself what duties and privileges members have.
fhcutie06 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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this guys an idiot, he deals completely in absolutes
skinnyaccountant (7 months ago) Show Hide
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don't get me wrong, i have seen abusive men try to negatively dominate their families & claim it's something positive, but in a true christian household, the father should also fear God & treat his family with love as the bible commands him to.
skinnyaccountant (7 months ago) Show Hide
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discipline is done for the child to build him or her up. abuse is nothing more than a form of 'venting frustrations' on the father's part & tears the child down. discipline has positive results.

it is the duty of the parent to teach a child how to act correctly. children don't know this instinctively, that's why they have parents.
skinnyaccountant (7 months ago) Show Hide
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i don't like how he equates strict father households who believe in discipline with abuse of women & children. true discipline has nothing to do with abuse. they are completely different, but this man is confusing the two because in both situations the husband is the head of the household.
barrilixx (4 months ago) Show Hide
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The reality is that there are two sets of values, and *either can be okay*, when it comes to raising kids. (It is a *myth* that only one side of the political spectrum has problems with abuse.)

The important thing is consistency. Everyone knows, obeys, and enforces rules viewed as legitimate.

Conservative parents will "produce" kids who are good workers, disciplined and hard working.

Liberal parents will "produce" kids who are creative and sensitive.

Society needs both.
thefakeyeti (2 months ago) Show Hide
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How do you define "Liberal" vs "conservative"?

I assume you only mean when it comes to how they discipline their children?

PLUS, It's as though you think that being creative and sensitive is mutually exclusive to being hard working and disciplined...
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