Dan Quayle in America by Heart, by Sarah Palin

On Families & Children: 2010: 18 years after Murphy Brown, "Dan Quayle Was Right"

In 1992, 38 million Americans watched as a fictional television journalist named Murphy Brown, finding herself over 40, divorced, and pregnant, decided to have the child alone. Without the baby's father. On prime-time television. Vice-President Dan Quayle expressed his opinion by saying, "It doesn't help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown--a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman--mocking the importance of fathers y bearing a child alone and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'"

The Murphy Brown debacle effectively ended Quayle's hope of succeeding George H. W. Bush as president. But from the perspective of 18 years later, his defense of families with fathers looks prophetic. And in fact it was only a few years later that The Atlantic Monthly published a controversial cover story titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." What we've learned since--and what Hollywood is still having trouble accepting--is that families matter & fathers do matter.

Source: America by Heart, by Sarah Palin, p.116-117 Nov 23, 2010

The above quotations are from America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin. Click here for other excerpts from America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin. Click here for other excerpts by Dan Quayle. Click here for a profile of Dan Quayle.
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