It seems fitting that the best summation of contemporary policymakers’ approach to families was delivered by a dancing purple dinosaur:
A family is people and a family is love, that’s a family. They come in all different sizes and all different kinds, but mine’s just right for me.
As children’s programming goes, so goes the nation. Our policymakers prefer that no one feel left out, promoted, or discriminated against, and so “family policy” is too often just a gloss on the conventional progressive agenda with an ever-expanding definition of family – parents, kids, relatives, would-be parents, “chosen families,” roommates, the “socially infertile,” pets, and so on.
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