Word: parentdom
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That is what separates Clinton's welfare speeches form those of Dan Quayle when he slammed of Murphy Brown's single-parentdom. Unlike Clinton, Quayle was not justifying a policy so much as he was using morality to exclude people and to batter them into certain types of behavior. He was using words to cut off certain groups of people from the "mainstream" of our society. His words did not change anyone's moral decisions, but served only to increase people's disdain for politics...
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