Yeah, a wonderful idea, Individual! Let's force all our young people into the army and train them to be killers.

Once we get them trained up, we in Australia might go into the warmongering business like the Yanks and the Brits do.

And we wonder why our world is such a barbaric, war-filled place.

Have you got any other good ideas? Let's make gun ownership possible from 10 years of age. Let's put people who try to promote peace in jail!

Individual, I definately agree with David G, I did National Service training in 1954,it did not make me a better or worse person, it did teach me how to kill people in the most barbaric way using bayonets , 303 4rifles, hand grenades and every other method of killing . Is this what you want in our much more enlightened age now, as mentioned in an earlier post "warmongering parasites" at the helm.

Kipp> I was born this way,

Which way? Indirection again.

Kipp> how about you, or are you hiding from something ?

No. I have checked (and also asked others) quite a few times in different ways. I have no big secrets. So... what are _you_ hiding from?

runner> I was born with a nature that gave me the choice to be an adulterer, a liar, a fornicator etc etc.

As are we all. Including 'honest,' 'highly-integral,' 'diligent,' 'industrious,' etc, which leads me to idly wonder why you only chose to list destructive behaviours.

runner> Thankfully my parents and others at least taught me the right way (though I ignored them for a long time).

Yes, that's a big part of parenthood, however 'right' in this sense is a subjective term, and not monochrome (there are states other than flat-out 'right' or 'wrong'), as of course is this sentence.

Terms like 'functional,' 'effective,' or 'cooperative' are somewhat more objective and also tending a little more towards precise. This said, what you say is relatively easy to understand as you have stated things in a fairly definite and firm manner.

Alan Austin> what about three-parent families?

Such research (more than two parents) has unquestionably been done, in the case of observations of followers of Joseph Smith jnr, who have often practised polygamy (a subset: polygyny).

I would guess that the additional stability would be beneficial, minor confusion over the role of a parent (and about differences from other families) would not, some confusion would be added by their original rôle model having been a power-hungry sex maniac and a founding member of the Nuavoo Lodge of Freemasonry (not nearly as much as the personality cult [*not* a religion: members have no genuine choices, they are required to conquer, enslave or murder all others] started by a genocidal, misogynist, paedophile, rapist, false prophet and known as Islam).

Suseonline> apparently it is these same men who feel the burning need to tell everyone else that they must live the same way as them, or burn in their hell

No, it is the 'tolerant' mob who wish to destroy the existing systems (and have not suggested any functional replacement) who have been doing that.

An ever-painful Hell is an importation from Chaldean Mithraism and has often been used to coerce those reluctant to provide funds or obedience to the self-appointed authorities: read the verse Jude 7 in a bible (use the KJV, it has been warped in the NIV) then ask yourself if Sodom and Gomorrha are still aflame?

When they were discovered (ranged down the West side of the Dead Sea), it was found that the burning sulphur which had rained down on them had eaten holes into the stone the towns were constructed from.

The verses in Revelation 21:7-8 make it plain that there are exactly two alternative outcomes for all, so if anybody tells you differently, ask them for their authority.

AA,

Your question of whether 3 parents would be better for raising children while obviously intended as a flippant throw away remark, actually to some extent has already been researched in the guise of extended families, where one or more of the grandparents lives with the children and is involved in their parenting.

The results actually do appear to indicate that children raised in this environment fare better than the simple nuclear family.

I have not seen anywhere where CB denigrates the parents of non traditional families, this is purely the interpretation of the left whingers that need something to be angry about.

AusTux
What on earth is 'highly integral' ?

'The verses in Revelation 21:7-8 make it plain that there are exactly two alternative outcomes for all, so if anybody tells you differently, ask them for their authority.' Why should a piece of ancient fantasy writing have more authority than anything else ?