Well...

I think that the author is first of all WAY too full of himself. Here he is, rambling on and on about how the only way for kids to succeed is to live in a house with a married mother and father, and how marriage is a commitment, and how he is perfect at it. I would actually love to ask this dude's family if he is perfect, seeing how he was a former Senator, a job that, to me, would take up a lot of his time, just as he condemned those fathers too involved in work. Sigh. Anywhoo, along those lines, I think that this comparison of a single-parent household to a plane that only sometimes gets you to where you want to be safely is a little extreme. He had stated his point before employing this ridiculous mental image, and I have to say it would have been much more effective if he had just left it out completely. I mean, its obvious that there will be challenges in a single-parent household. Of course the one parent can't do everything that two parents would be able to do. So why is he comparing two completely different realms? They are related, yes, but still it seems unfair to slap this negative connotation upon single parent homes when there really may be no way to become a system like plane number one that he allows to bask in glory. In conclusion, this essay made me very angry and I think that this man needs to get out of his most likely huge house somewhere in suburbia more than once a year for brunch.