Posted on 11/14/2013 1:11:44 PM PST by IbJensen
"Approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father."
Who says one-person households are lonely?
The one-person household is standard in NYC, but NYC is probably the most social place in the country.
Indeed. How utterly sad. Sad for the poor kids and the generations after them. Is there any wonder why we now have feral kids who’s hearts are hard as rocks and who act out with such brutality?
Actually true, but don’t let that stop you.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_div_rat-people-divorce-rate
I keep thinking about a revival, but without hearing the Gospel from your neighbor or seeing it practiced by your neighbor, I don’t see it happening. We need a Jonathan Edwards.
Scroll down. It depends on whether you’re talking about divorces in relation to marriages or to the population. So far as I can make out, Russia has the highest percentage of divorces in relation to marriages, but since the marriage rate is lower the US may have a higher percentage of divorces in relation to the population. When people are set on ranting, though, facts and distinctions really don’t matter much.
What do you mean “WE’ve abandoned ...”
Speak for yourself.
It’s part of the reinstitution of slavery. Broken families don’t as often rise to compete.
Single dads head record share of U.S. households with children
Single fathers tend to be younger, poorer and less educated than married ones, the Pew report showed. They fare better financially than single mothers, though, even though they are less likely than single mothers to have gone to college.
http://www.scmp.com/article/628023/single-mothers-becoming-more-numerous-and-poorer-census
Single mothers becoming more numerous - and poorer: census
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/201204/vulnerabilities-singles-no-children-part-4
Family-Relevant Vulnerabilities of Singles with No Children
In the United States, to be single is to be economically disadvantaged by law. (For a discussion of legal discrimination as well as other instances of singlism, see DePaulo 2006 and DePaulo 2011). There are more than 1,100 federal laws that benefit and protect only those who are legally married. Consider the example of a single person who works side-by-side with a married coworker at the same job, at the same level of achievement, for the same number of years. When the married worker dies, he or she can leave Social Security benefits to a surviving spouse (and, under certain circumstances, a whole series of ex-spouses); the benefits of the single worker with no children go back into the system. Similarly, no other person can give their Social Security benefits to an adult who has always been single.
http://www.top10facts.com/2013/03/top-10-countries-with-highest-divorce-rate-in-2013/
Has U.S. 4th - Aruba 1st.
No, most Americans don't like it that way... it's why alienation is so high. Read 'Bowling Alone' and the follow up research. This is a sad country.
What does your post have to do with mine?
This is a sobering article - and not the first one of these I’ve seen. I’m sure others could say the same. I’m also sure that others have noticed the rise in the most bizzare and horrific crimes of late. Life is cheap in the eyes of so many and they take lives so easily. One passage from 2 Tim.3:1-8 comes to mind, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God…ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” It describes us so well. Even here on freerepublic the comments so often lack substance, depth - focus on humor rather than the more serious, reasoned reply that is called for. All the signs are there and have been for a long time now. We have rejected God and his overtures of love and correction. As green66 posted what was esteemed as good and worthy is now profaned - and the profane glorified. Total glorification of hedonism - that’s America today. It’s not so much that God will judge our nation (he will, of course) but more immediately that we in our desire for “total freedom” (read “real slavery”) will destroy ourselves or so weaken ourselves that another nation - or most likely in our case, another culture (read Islam) will do it for us. The tragedy is that we will furnish the ropes and chains and swords. America, America God shed his grace on thee but we’re too sophisticated for all that now.
The liberal culture has been working on eroding our values for more than a century. Everything that is “modern” has been invented in the Western countries, everything good and everything bad. There has been an attack on Christian values since the days of the French Revolution. I am reading a book titled “Proofs of a Conspiracy” written by John Robison. Guess when?...1798. Everything that the Illuminati and the Jacobins believed has been echoed for two hundred years and to the present days. It never ends, it is always the same thing, attack the government, church and family. They even used pornography to corrupt society.
What is her life going to be like when she reaches the age of 40?
Bump
I’m not for becoming a police state to monitor’s behavior, but I do believe we should not shield people from the consequences of their actions.
Welfare and abortion are two ways in which the state opposes God’s morality. There have to be consequences for people’s actions.
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