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In this metaphor he compares the lifestyles of two families, one with both a mother and a father, the other, a broken relationship. With statistical backing he states that a child raised by a whole family has a greater chance of succeeding than the one raised by the broken relationship, recognizing the fact that failures are infrequent on both sides. He relates the metaphor therein by envisioning one plane that has a 90% of landing successfully to the whole family, and a plane that has an 80% chance of landing to the broken family. While both planes have a strong and fairly similar chance of landing safely, the analogy argues the fact that even a slight increase in effectivity is worth endeavoring to take the plane that has the greater odds of landing successfully. The metaphor also applies a second facet of raising a child. It takes the fear many people have of being on a plane that crashes and uses it to make the implication that the dangers of a plane are approximately the same as those of raising a child incorrectly, for crashing a plane, like the raising of a child, can only be done once.