The father has no place in today’s Democratic Party

Biden’s decision to leave fathers out of the sales pitch for his family policy wouldn’t be so bad, except that the actual policies in his family policy make it less likely that fathers will be there for their children.

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For starters, his extended payments to parents would punish mothers such as Linda who want to marry the fathers of their children. According to the Tax Policy Center, a mother making $19,000 would lose almost $1,000 a year in payments from the government if she were to get married.

A young couple making $25,000 each and wanting to get married before starting a family would also face a $4,000 penalty under Biden’s plan. Those penalties would only go up as the family had children. The child care subsidies in Biden’s plan contain steep benefit cliffs that would punish couples who seek the stability of marriage.

Democrats often complain that it is the Republicans who push an ideal vision of the American family on an unreceptive public. But the exact opposite is true. The public prefers a family in which the mother and the father are married, the father works full time, and the mother has the option of working full time, part time, or staying home. But the Biden agenda forces a different model on everyone.

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