Must close, I have about 50 issues of MLJ to go through yet. I find myself in substantial agreement with Alex Herrera on the issue of family structure. Not only do children deserve to grow up in a household with their mother and father, the commandment to be fruitful and multiply also implies that Jews should form solid families for the purpose of raising children. I will go farther than Alex. Not only do children deserve to be raised by their parents.
Parents also deserve the opportunity to raise their children.
It is both a responsibility and a reward for parents to provide their children with nurturing, and with an education in Jewish subjects, morals, family lore and secular subjects. You cannot do this on alternate weekends, and if that is your situation, then you can bet the farm that someone else is educating your children in these subjects, no doubt with a totally different point of view than you would provide. You may make your own choices. But the advice I am giving my children is to look for a spouse who came from a traditional nuclear family. The children from broken homes are all too likely to have accepted the idea that families are disposable and that selfishness is more important than the common good.