Do left-liberals neglect the importance of families?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

A bit. Liberals need to fight harder for issues like subsidizing surrogate mothers for gay couples and allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.

Government paying mothers to give their children to someone else is a perfect example of neglecting the importance of family.   Privileging funding for child care outside the home over supporting parents in caring for children at home is a less extreme example of this.

Creating families is a perfect example of neglecting the importance of family?

Monetizing parenthood into a commercial exchange can be an example of neglecting it's importance, yes, just as prostitution neglects the true importance of sexuality.

This metaphor only makes sense if you consider biological parenthood a necessity to be a person in the family. This should obviously be the most critical item on the agenda.

Anyway, liberal policies far from ignore the importance of families and really look to entirely benefit them in a way no Republican can. Anything said to the contrary is racialized rhetoric. Even college loan policies play an obvious role in family values in that it is hard if not impossible to start a family with that cloud hanging over you! And that's before we even get into SNAP funding and all the other necessities that Republicans wish to do away with to literally starve underclass families out.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Please Al, no one is forcing the surrogates to go through this to survive. This is an act of kindness much like donating blood. The fact that they are compensated at all to induce an act of goodness ought to be more than enough. In fact, perhaps it is even closer to an organ donation, which serves as a moral obligation so people are guaranteed their rights (to life). But seeing as how people do not care about moral obligations, a payment may just be needed to make that a reality, in this market particularly.

All I can say is thank the good Lord for my employer and my proximity to Delaware, the land of the (relatively) free rather than most anywhere else in this regressive nation, and most especially in totally backwards Europe.