Posted on 12/26/2014 5:32:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
Less than half (46%) of U.S. kids younger than 18 years of age are living in a home with two married heterosexual parents in their first marriage. This is a marked change from 1960, when 73% of children fit this description, and 1980, when 61% did, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of recently-released American Community Survey (ACS) and Decennial Census data.
Rapid changes in American family structure have altered the image of who’s gathering for the holidays. While the old “ideal” involved couples marrying young, then starting a family, and staying married till “death do they part”, the family has become more complex, and less “traditional”.
Americans are delaying marriage, and more may be foregoing the institution altogether. At the same time, the share of children born outside of marriage now stands at 41%, up from just 5% in 1960. While debate continues as to whether divorce rates have been rising or falling in recent decades, it’s clear that in the longer term, the share of people who have been previously married is rising, as is remarriage. …
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Just because one institution is doing poor, does not mean one should try everything else to figure that it will somehow fix the problem.
Kind of reinforces the idea that if the father isn’t there, all sorts of people, including the leader of the gang, have the potential to fill the role.
They are delusionally suicidal, they convince themselves from their mansions that because since they can still have their parties and enjoy their own lives, then the world must be okay. Delusional is worse than just suicidal, because at least the regular suicidal individual can acknowledge something is messed up. The delusional individual denies that it is so bad, until it is too late, and by then, the delusional takes down plenty of others with him/her.
The Middle East is a total mess, and much of it in flames. Does that tell you something. When they destroy each other long enough, natural selection really comes into play as to who is the most fit.
No; that has a supernatural cause. Just like the anti-family movements in so-called “Western” society.
When the world faces a time where all physical life can be annihilated, what is “nature” selecting? Remember that the “nature” of “natural selection” comes from the old pagan “earth goddesses” and such.
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