April 13

The metaphor that Dr. Horn uses is very interesting when you really think about what it means. He compares a single parent household and a married household to planes arriving. The fact that he says that one plane usually gets someone most of the way but not the whole way shows that there is something missing in the childhood of a single parent household. Horn implies that they can have a good childhood and learn a lot, but they are still falling short of what a person from a married household would have. The married household’s plane arrives safely more times than not. By this, Horn shows that children growing up with married parents are more successful in life and have fewer struggles than those children from single parent households. The final interpretation of the metaphor is that there is something that a married couple can offer to a child that a single parent lacks.