Moms and dads do die, but, in traditional marriage and family raising, they die after the kids are adults, and aren’t dependent on their parents anymore, either financially or psychologically. The way our current system works, encouraging one-parent families, kids loose out on a father and/or mother right at the start of their lives. This is not good.
Also, with a parent still alive, but not having anything to do with their kid, the issue becomes “Why doesn’t Mommy/Daddy love me? Why don’t they choose to be with me?” something far more difficult to cope with than the death of an elderly parent.
Where the heck do you get that momof3 is comparing marriage to prostitution? She isn’t. Entering marriage like prostitution isn’t a good idea (though that’s a pretty old saw that progressives like to throw at the insitution), but having kids out of wedlock because you’re working on a “relationship”, or because you’re in looooooove (cue in the banjos, here), or because your idiot friends and family are encouraging you to do this, or you read in a magazine that single mom-hood is the new, progressive family—well, that’s not such a hot idea, either.
