Krijack--Some good points but I think this thread has devolved far beyond reason and intellectual discussion. One of the more recent studies I found published was the one linking alcohol availability and domestic violence and the other was unmarried couples and domestic violence. When the two are intertwined, such as a scenario of Blue_Jay's mom's new "friend" getting hammered on Monarch Whiskey and slapping them up and down the singlewide, it paints a pretty clear picture of the possibilities.
The Abortion angle is something I hadn't considered, but makes perfect sense since almost every girl I know who's had one was a church going Catholic. But that doesn't bother me in the least. The more Conservatives choose not to breed is not something that should be criticized or discouraged in anyway such as the Abortion Protesters that turned Blue_Jay's mom away from the clinic door those decades ago discouraged and thus prevented her from ending her pregnancy and dooming her as a single parent to raising a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
But you do bring up the good point that in a perfect world there wouldn't be any Domestic Violence, that everyone would put other's needs ahead of their own, but that's not the world we live in, at least not as long as we have Conservatives in it who's greed & self-interest is so Dogmatic it's part of their public political platform.



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