Should the law encourage the union of a child's biological parents whenever possible?

Does the child have a right, or an expectation, that his biological parents will raise him? Should society encourage this practice? Why or why not?Should the law encourage the union of a child's biological parents whenever possible?
Yes, but there has to be provisions as well.


For example, no one would argue that having an abusive father is a good thing. That said, the benefits of opposite gender roles in child rearing have been studied for years and all conclude that the most ideal situation is a one male, one female, married couple (even unmarried heterosexual couples fare worse than those married).


Society should encourage this practice as much possible.Should the law encourage the union of a child's biological parents whenever possible?
Yes, wherever possible children should be raised by their natural parents.





Not where there's abuse or neglect or the parents can't do it and give up the child. Oh yeah, and I mean one natural parent is better than a stranger, if the other natural parent won't participate. If the parents split up, no I don't think they should be forced or encouraged to stay together. Encouraged to get along, yes. But to stay together would be a recipe for disaster for everyone.





Most of the laws here focus on family preservation...or so they say. For example step parent adoption is really hard because they want the natural parent to be involved more, domestic adoption is extremely rare too. And of course it's quite hard to get divorced...you can't do it if you've been married less than a year, and you have to be separated for 12 months in order for the application to go through (but same with or without children). So to some extents the law is encouraging family preservation. I think they shouldn't go any further though.
Sure in a perfect world we would all be raise by our biological parents. However, what about those people who can't have children? Are they not allowed to adopt bc the child would not be theirs biologically. Or 2 teenagers who make a mistake and now for the rest of their life they have to be committed to this other person? Not fair.





I have a son whose biological father is not in the picture at all. He's never even seen my son. He knows about him, but didn't want to be a father and I decided that he wasn't fit to be one either. It has worked out just fine for us this way and my son is happy.
No.





What if the biological parents are emotionally, physically, or sexually abusive? There are plenty of cases where a single parent household would be better than married household.
no. you can't force people against there will to raise a child