Two hundred years ago, medical experts applied leeches in an effort to 'help' the human body. Good sense yielded healthier medicine. In the last three decades, experts seeking to 'help' the family robbed it of vital lifeblood as well. Over the decades, government villagers plundered the family income with tax policies that have systematically reduced the value of dependent child exemptions and penalized many working couples simply because they were married.
Experience is a most relentless teacher, and times are changing.
Societal interest in divorce reform, fatherhood initiatives, mothers at home, school choice, home schooling , and curbs on violent and degrading entertainment, as well as Congressional passage of the largest, most family-friendly tax cut bill in two decades, are indications that good sense is returning. Modern day leeches are being discarded in favor of healthier habits and attitudes-harbinger of better times for families and the nation.