Single moms are making us broke

pioneer press ^ | 5-5-13 | joe soucheray

[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.

[Trailerpark Badass]

LOL, wut?

What a moronic statement.

[snowstorm12]

It wouldn’t matter if they were married, either. The majority of people getting welfare, don’t want to work, married or not. The men and women that are reproducing are losers and a marriage license won’t change anything. You have to force these people into a job. Force them to do something in exchange for benefits. let them do unpleasant tasks for their local city for welfare benefits. The freebies will be less desirable. Does the Boston Bomber ring a bell? Was he working or paying for his family? nope.

[Kickass Conservative]

New Bumper Stickers:

I have a Uterus and I Vote!

I have a Uterus and I know how to use it!

It’s not my fault I can’t keep my knees together!

It’s not my Bush’s fault!

[Kickass Conservative]

Better to teach them the Clinton Birth Control method, “a Lewinsky a day keeps the Baby away”.

[Kickass Conservative]

>”It’s the dads who aren’t shouldering their share of the load”<

Actually, the Dad’s are contributing the entire load. That’s the problem.

[The_Reader_David]

Now, it may be "liberal dogma that I shouldn't be telling women what to do, or men", "I" being the author, or any of us here at FR, but it jolly well isn't liberal dogma that liberals and the Federal goverment shouldn't be telling women or men what to do, quite the opposite: you have to pay for her contraceptive, you have to buy this kind of lightbulb you don't want, you have to buy health insurance, you can't build on the land you own because it contains a swamp wetland, . . .

[2001convSVT]

Being the Mother of a Bastard use to be a bad thing.