“Not Family-Friendly”
Posted on | July 26, 2006
How refreshing! A survey comes out in which citizens complain that their country is “not family-friendly,” and the phrase isn’t some bigoted code for “not discriminatory against gays”:
Of the 3,000 parents with children younger than five who were surveyed by Mother and Baby magazine and parenting website Mothercare, 96 percent said days out were a “rip-off”, with nine out of 10 parents saying they were charged too much for children’s food portions.
Two-thirds said Britain was “not family-friendly” and nearly half of those questioned felt the country was “anti-child”.
Yep, it was a survey in Britain. Only in other countries, it seems, would the term “pro-family” actually refer to helping families! Stateside, a “not family-friendly” complaint is always prologue to an ignorant anti-gay screed.
