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+ | ==========The Monogamous Family in the Social Welfare State========== | ||
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+ | =====1. Postmodernist Polyamorous State===== | ||
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+ | In between the [[monogamous_versus_polyamorous_cultures|monogamous and polyamorous cultures]] lies the welfare state and its operational bureaucracy.((This entry draws heavily from [[http:// | ||
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+ | This polyamorous-friendly, | ||
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+ | Further, the social welfare state asks the [[effects_of_family_structure_on_government_dependency|monogamous to support the polyamorous]], | ||
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+ | =====2. How to Achieve Neutrality===== | ||
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+ | One way to [[marriage_in_welfare_reform|progress]] in this direction and to make the behavioral bureaucracy serve both cultures is to give all parents, parents of both cultures, control over the program money set aside for their children. That is giving parents vouchers, in one form or another, for all three program areas. | ||
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+ | The social welfare safety net will still be in place, but the parents (be they monogamous or polyamorous) will choose who holds the net in place for their children. | ||
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+ | This requires a huge political effort on the part of the monogamy culture. It will require diverting the flow of money from the special interest groups (organized doctors, teachers, schools) and instead directing the voucher money (cost per child served) to the parent— who can then choose the individual doctor, teacher, or school they want. The professionals will still receive the same amount of money, but instead of serving a bureaucracy, | ||
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+ | ====2.1 Role of Men==== | ||
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+ | By its very make-up, the culture of monogamy organizes itself bottom-up, not top-down in social (and thus political) matters. It solves its social problems by forming its own private “platoons.” And in the protection of the family, men have the special role of being the primary protector. Thus, in this political competition for peaceful coexistence, | ||
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+ | Every male in the monogamy culture, and especially every father, will find his way to be engaged in this protection of his children, and, given what is at stake, other men and women of the culture of monogamy will increasingly expect this of every man. | ||
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+ | Monogamous man will be expected to fight for control over is what is his and his family’s just due, what his taxes fund, and what he can use in raising his children: control over the three big programs of childhood education, sex education, and adolescent health programs, so that they can be carried out in a way that supports the norms of the culture of monogamy. In this rearrangement, | ||
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+ | In this way, both cultures can live together with much greater ease and peace. | ||
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+ | Now, monogamous families are tasked with gathering, planning, and exhorting each other, and drawing to their side not only monogamous men but the fathers of good will in the culture of polyamory, for their children will also benefit from their having control over the big three programs. | ||