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Single moms are making us broke
pioneer press ^ | 5-5-13 | joe soucheray

Posted on 05/05/2013 8:01:10 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

It was reported the other day on an inside page of the Pioneer Press, and without nearly enough fanfare, that more than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried. That is census data, from census demographers, from the very government that then becomes responsible for many, if not most, of those unmarried women and children.

If that isn't an astonishing statistic, it should be. Why, to any logical person's way of thinking, it explains everything in terms of government at all levels bloating out of control.

Supposing that even angels might fear to tread here, it being liberal dogma that I shouldn't be telling women what to do, or men, either, for that matter, I would submit that marriage would solve virtually every economic issue facing this country.

The census demographers said that single motherhood, on the increase since the 1940s, has accelerated mindblowingly. The birth rate for unmarried women in 2007 was up 80 percent in the almost three decades since 1980. Just between 2002 and 2007, it was up 20 percent.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; census; deadbeatdads; debt; divorce; election2014; election2016; marriage; single; spending; welfare
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To: TurboZamboni
feral breeders...
21 posted on 05/05/2013 8:59:10 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

oh well.

LBJ solved poverty already.

/sarc


22 posted on 05/05/2013 9:01:23 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: mountainlion

some of data here:

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/05/unwed-birth-rate-signals-the-collapse-of-marriage

8% of ALL children born in the United States are born to illegal immigrants.

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/08/11/illegal-immigrants-bear-8-children-born-us

Costs on average for every illegal alien headed household about $19,600 more if they consume the city services than they pay in taxes, so the rest of the taxpayers have to part costs. Schools become overcrowded, English as second language programs push out other programs.


23 posted on 05/05/2013 9:05:04 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: TurboZamboni

“single mom” sounds like a PC term intended to bring victim-hood status.

Fact is that the woman had choice. She chose to have sex with an uncommitted man. She chose to do so without being married. SHE IS NOT A VICTIM. The victim is the CHILD.

She should be called “unmarried parent” or something like that and needs be held responsible for her choices. Same for the father.


24 posted on 05/05/2013 9:10:18 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: Kozak
Guess where we will be in another generation?

Indeed. And with the concept of homosexual marriage, the whole meaning of the institution goes away. Man-Man? Woman-Woman? 3-on-1? What difference does it make? Pregnancy happens, and the government will take care of the fallout! The important thing is, "we had fun".

25 posted on 05/05/2013 9:17:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (T)
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To: Gaffer
Most of the heifers I see in WalMart with an EBT card aren’t ‘alone’.....their live-in unemployed boyfriend is outside in his new F-150 waiting on her to come out with the grocery cart and beer. Seen it many, many times.

As have I. You are speaking the truth.


26 posted on 05/05/2013 9:24:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: TurboZamboni

Men could stop this tomorrow if they’d stop having sex with women they aren’t married to.

Even on FR it’s a big hoo-rah joke.


27 posted on 05/05/2013 9:35:04 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks TurboZamboni.
...more than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried.
Hey, mea culpa, I just can't keep it in my pants.


28 posted on 05/05/2013 9:36:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Persevero
Men could stop this tomorrow if they’d stop having sex with women they aren’t married to.

You are correct. People should read Genesis 18 and 19.

God judges sexual sin. It has consequences.

29 posted on 05/05/2013 9:36:48 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: TurboZamboni
This is more complicated than what Joe here as mentioned.

I'll give single mom's a lot of credit for one thing. They aren't killing their babies. Sadly, that's a lot to ask these days. Some people here want to push shame tactics, but that will lead to more abortions as shame and embarrassment (esp in cases of affairs), family pressure, bad boyfriends, and inconvenience are often reasons for abortions.

Sometimes it's not the single mom's fault. Widows. Guys leaving town and disappearing. That happens. I've seen both happen.

Single parenting is not ideal, but it's a lot more ideal than abortion.

30 posted on 05/05/2013 9:37:49 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: TurboZamboni

They can raise children on their own as long as they can suck us all dry.


31 posted on 05/05/2013 9:39:15 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: TurboZamboni

THe best way to guarantee a future of poverty and crime for a child is to have him be brought up by a single mom.

People see this as a criticism of single mothers. NO - its a criticism of society that allows, encourages and supports this, as well as of MEN - who are avoiding their responsibilities


32 posted on 05/05/2013 9:50:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: TurboZamboni

There are NO “single” moms. Just unmarried ones, and 99% of the time by choice. Can’t let that “marriage” thing interfere with EITC, welfare, section 8, food stamps, obamaphones, etc, etc,etc.


33 posted on 05/05/2013 10:03:21 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Gaffer
The men weren’t replaced. The standard became “not married.” Most of the heifers I see in WalMart with an EBT card aren’t ‘alone’.....their live-in unemployed boyfriend is outside in his new F-150 waiting on her to come out with the grocery cart and beer. Seen it many, many times.

That's my experience as well here in Chicago a few blocks from the West Side, only it's a Chrysler 300. I also have a brother-in-law living in a house he inherited with his girlfriend plus two kids from previous dude. She works just enough hours to get the child care check. Everyone's getting their own government support. Who needs work?

34 posted on 05/05/2013 10:29:42 AM PDT by Snake65
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To: Gaffer

There are “fathers” and there are “sperm donors”...perhaps a more accurate description is that welfare replaced fathers with sperm donors.


35 posted on 05/05/2013 10:30:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TurboZamboni

Why do we pay unmarried women to have children?

You get what you pay for...


36 posted on 05/05/2013 10:52:33 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: TurboZamboni

A comment and a question.

The comment: these subsidized single mothers must be the finest flowering of the Cloward Piven strategy. It’s untouchable. It’s for the children.

Now the question: why don’t we audit these poor single mums? In the UK they decided to audit the rolls of the disability claimants and a HUGE percentage voluntarily withdrew just because of the announcement..


37 posted on 05/05/2013 11:00:13 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: TurboZamboni

38 posted on 05/05/2013 11:02:36 AM PDT by SIDENET
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To: TurboZamboni

70% of the births at Parkland Hospital in Dallas are born to illegals.


39 posted on 05/05/2013 11:02:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TurboZamboni

The problem actually seems to be one of single dads more than single moms, since single moms are at least overwhelmingly fully vested in raising their children.

It’s the dads who aren’t shouldering their share of the load.


40 posted on 05/05/2013 11:12:43 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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