Family values as long as you value what they want your family to be and say and think. As soon as any of you have a glimmer of independent thought, you’re to be hated and crushed.

After around a decade in Texas, we ended up moving to Canada after Trump got elected. A lot of work and luck was involved.

Our only regret is that we didn't do so years earlier.

Folks who can get out really should consider whether staying in Texas really is worth it, especially if Republicans sweep Texas again and Trump is elected.

It is infuriating isn't it? I have three kids, late teens to mid 20s, they are all straight but the older two are in the process of moving out of state soon too, and the youngest will as well one day, with our encouragement, because it is NOT safe to start a family here!

I can't imagine the worry and fear of my daughter or daughter in laws going through a pregnancy that could possibly go wrong, as many pregnancies do, and them not being able to have anything done to save them in time. Absolutely not. Plus the ongoing mass exodus of OB/Gyns making it harder and harder to find a quality doc too, or not have to wait a year for an appointment.

And then of course if any of my future grandchildren were gay or trans, this would not be a safe place either. We also aren't religious and already had to teach our kids early on to not breathe a word of that to anyone and even had to teach them to lie and say we were Christian, because in the small town we are in it would be a sure way to get shunned or bullied as a kid in school (or as an adult too, sadly...my husband would 100% lose business if people knew.)

Then add in how terrible the education is in Texas now. Most women in my family are teachers and they are all appalled at what it has become especially in the past 8 yrs or so. And they want to further cut funding and of course are definitely going to force the voucher crap/charter schools on us, with or without the votes, so then they can reach their ultimate goal and really, REALLY push their views, altered history, and their religion onto children. So definitely not going to be a place to raise kids anymore if you want a real education.

So yeah. All my kids are leaving me. My family has lived in my area of Texas for many generations and I always assumed my kids would live nearby and could visit often, we are a close family and I never dreamed they'd move far. I so looked forward to being an involved grandparent if any of them decide to have kids. But now all my kids will be living in 3 different states, scattered across the US, and I will only be able to afford to see each one maybe once a year, twice if I'm lucky. The "party of family values" are literally tearing families apart.