Bill Thompson

It's super destructive.

Children are the ones who suffer the most on it.

And I think the data is clear on that.

When you look at, you know, single parent homes or no parent homes or being raised, you know, without an authority.

Or an abusive step person.

And that is, you know, when you look up the stats on that, like remarriage and having a new family like that, that becomes the single most likely vector of abuse in a young child's life is that new person.

Right.

Because now they're raising someone else's kid or whatever.

Yes.

And so, you know, I kind of...

kind of resented that part of that time that culture was I shouldn't say when I was a child I should say as I got older because I wasn't a single mom home and the guy that my mother remarried right after my father died was abusive and you know he really got hard on my younger brother and you know my mother moved us out almost immediately but when I re-examined that time it really was a

You know, I don't know how to describe it, but, you know, there are no rules when it comes to relationships and family and every family special in particular in its own way.

And they all need to be venerated.

And there's, of course, some truth to that.

We shouldn't deride someone because they come from a broken family, but we shouldn't elevate it like it's at the same level as a unified family.

And that's a tricky line to walk.

But also the people who are making those movies and that culture came from the 50s and 60s where divorce was just not in the cards.

And so that was Hook's law.

As you bend any object, it wants to return back to its natural state.

And Hook's Law kind of played there where nobody could get divorced in the 40s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.