[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 112 (Monday, July 8, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H4474-H4475]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE DEMISE OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, another week has gone by and another week 
of the press corps leaving aside writing about the greatest long-term 
issue facing our country, and that is the breakdown of the family, 
beginning in the 1960s with the most recent Marxist and feminists like 
Kate Millett, later on a communist by the name of Angela Davis, and 
later on, Black Lives Matter.
  Our country keeps marching toward the end of the nuclear family, and 
programs ever since that time are clearly designed with this in mind, 
such as section 42 housing tax credits giving better housing to people 
who are not married than people who are, healthcare, earned income tax 
credit of $6,000 to $7,000 a year, TANF cash, and special programs for 
disabled kids for which only single parents are eligible.
  It is time for the press to look at these programs. Frequently, it is 
costing over $25,000 for young couples to get married rather than to 
not keep both parents in the house. I ask the press corps to wake up 
and make this an issue in this year's presidential campaign.

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