Do left-liberals neglect the importance of families?

[Goldwater]

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?

[Goldwater]

From my socially conservative standpoint, the left's problem isn't ignoring families, it's promoting a very narrow vision of what a family is. One gets the impression from many left-liberal activists that the ideal family has 1-2 kids, lives in a city, and has both parents working full time.

For example, almost all the family/childcare policy I've heard from the centre left lately is based around making paid childcare more affordable and increasing female labour force participation. The mother who wants to stay home or work part time or have four kids is ignored. Similar themes are found in urban planning. I agree car culture has run amok as the next liberal, but I can't quite shake the notion that for some leftish folks that we're all supposed to live in 1 bedroom condos in downtown highrises.

I find this very interesting, since I imagine most socially liberal people would say the same thing about social conservatives.