Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.