Nevertheless, converting the GOP into the party of the parenting class carries a number of risks.

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Republicans trying to create a party of the parenting class will have to contend with more complex socioeconomic realities.

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Before my wife and I had been able to have a grown-up discussion about what to do (as recommended in those middle-class angst parenting books that we seem to have collected but never read) it all happened very quickly.

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Could we do the same thing for health insurance -- take class in cooking, nutrition, stress management, communication, parenting, stopping smoking, maybe even exercise classes -- and get a reduction on our monthly premiums?

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