The Washington Post, September 13th, 1994
Why, you might reasonably ask, were two politicians - President Clinton and former vice president Dan Quayle - lecturing the nation last week on the horrors of out-of-wedlock births? Isn't it the job of preachers and priests and rabbis and parents to say, as Clinton did, that "you shouldn't have a baby before you're ready and you shouldn't have a baby when you're not married"? Do we need a politician like Quayle to tell us that "it's important for fathers to be involved in raising their children"? There are plenty of cynical explanations for why Clinton and Quayle did the "family values" numbe...
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