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Project 2025 to Anyone Not Married with Children: Screw You
The Trump administration plans for nuclear family supremacy
Project 2025, the blueprint for so many of the policies and goals of the current Trump administration, is a document of nearly 900 pages. The White House, with its compliant Republican-led Congress, has been plowing its way through the Project 2025 agenda on immigration, border security, the economy, trade, the environment, foreign policy, and defense. But it has not yet fully taken on one of the key goals, “Promoting stable and flourishing married families.” Here’s what we’re in for once they do.
The regressive and the restrictive: heterosexual marriage and nuclear family supremacy
When Project 2025 declares that it wants to promote married families, it means just one kind of married family: “married mother, father, and their children,” considered to be “the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society (p. 451)”
“LGBTQ+ equity”? They want that repealed. Helping single mothers? No more of that either. Also, nothing that could be construed as a “marriage penalty.”
Single mothers, absent fathers, and their children come in for quite a lot of stereotyping and stigmatizing. The…
