Posted on 02/01/2018 9:40:07 AM PST by grundle
Abstract: Child poverty is an ongoing national concern, but few are aware that its principal cause is the absence of married fathers in the home. Marriage remains America’s strongest anti-poverty weapon, yet it continues to decline. As husbands disappear from the home, poverty and welfare dependence will increase, and children and parents will suffer as a result. Since marital decline drives up child poverty and welfare dependence, and since the poor aspire to healthy marriage but lack the norms, understanding, and skills to achieve it, it is reasonable for government to take active steps to strengthen marriage. Just as government discourages youth from dropping out of school, it should provide information that will help people to form and maintain healthy marriages and delay childbearing until they are married and economically stable. In particular, clarifying the severe shortcomings of the “child first, marriage later” philosophy to potential parents in lower-income communities should be a priority.
Child poverty is an ongoing national concern, but few are aware of its principal cause: the absence of married fathers in the home. According to the U.S. Census, the poverty rate for single parents with children in the United States in 2009 was 37.1 percent. The rate for married couples with children was 6.8 percent. Being raised in a married family reduced a child’s probability of living in poverty by about 82 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...
This is George Bush redux, our MBA president. Look at the numbers! If I higher percentage of the population were married and owned their own home, we could fix all of society’s problems, right?
Wrong, George. Just taking the existing poor people, marrying them off and giving them a subprime mortgage, is not going to work. You have to first be the type of person who works and plans for the future, then marrying and owning a house will follow in due course.
Get some education.
Get a job. Any job.
Get married before you have kids.
Stay married.
If you do those things, the chances of ending up in poverty in America are almost nil.
That’s racist!
Get some education.
Get a job. Any job.
Get married before you have kids.
Stay married.
Stay off drugs and stay away from people who use them.
Wow, what a concept.
Here’s a couple more.
Live where you can afford.
Full time mom
We have always been single income and a very modest single income for many years.
We bought used cars and drove them till they were dead.
Owned modest homes
Spent money wisely.
I like listening to Dave Ramsey and thank God we never got into debt. With one or two very short term exceptions, our mortgage and an occasional car payment is our only debt.
Some guy yesterday earns about $75,000 a year and is over $100,000 in debt (not including mortgage) $40,000 for cars etc. He wanted to know if budgeting $300 for two date nights a month was legit.
Sure, if you want to be a slave to your debt forever.
Be parents to your kids, not their friends.
Having a mom and dad to raise kids is key
You need to have the good cop bad cop approach
Nurture versus discipline
Oh your poor oowie. Or. it’s not bad put a band aid on
Be careful. Vs. go for it !
Especially with boys
Now of course the demoncraps are 500% to blame for the destruction of the nuclear family. Fathers. Fatherhood and the glorification of single motherhood (and baby killing )
The stupid party ( not so bad anymore with Mr Trump).
And the totally completely EVIL party
Amazing. Not once in that entire report does he mention divorce and the part it plays in this problem. He can blather on all he wants about children out of wedlock, but the ease with which divorce is obtained and the lack of stigma associated with it is a much greater reason for children being raised in a one-parent household.
“Live where you can afford.
Full time mom”
Been there, done that and Thank God for it everyday. For kids raised like this there is no such thing as hard times. Years back Hubby lost his job and I resorted to selling our belongings to make ends meet. Hubby got new job, thank God. Years later I asked our son, “remember that time we were really stressed for money?” he answered, “when was that?”. Told me everything I needed to know about that decision.
I’ll add- Don’t carry a balance on credit cards.
If you ain’t bleeding. Walk it off.
One day, when my daughter was about 1 1/2, I was talking to my neighbor and heard our screen door pop open followed by the unmistakable sound of skin on concrete. Then came the three second delay followed by screaming.
I looked at my neighbor and said “Good thing their heads are soft.” and went to help her.
Go for it is the correct answer almost always for boys.
Here’s one more.
The job of a parent, from the day their child is born is to teach them to be a little more independent every single day.
Been there, done that twice on the job front. The last one resulted in moving 600 miles way, selling the house at a loss, living apart from family for 8 months and moving everyone.
Tough? Sure
We made it through and didn’t even miss a house payment.
Worth it though
10.6% of college graduates majored in grievance studies...
Funniest thing as a kid will never cry until there’s a parent to cry to I remember seeing a kid one time run around after falling for about 10 minutes until he ran into big brother or sister and then let the wail roll
Of course that was like a five or six-year-old and a one and a half-year-old doesn’t think at all they just cry
Liberal 'culture' has intentionally undermined marriage for the dependent and lower classes... It's one of liberal's larger crimes against humanity...
When my son was six, I was teaching him to ski. He fell getting off the chair lift and got smacked on the head hard by a chair coming by.
He was trying his darndest to be a big boy and not cry. Then the blood started draining out under his hat.
He never really cried and was OK by the time Ski Patrol got there to give him a snowmobile ride down to the 1st Aid hut.
He enjoyed the ride. The stitches in his noggin, not so much.
No one is suggesting a government program to impose marriage on unwilling persons. The report is simply a fact-based analysis of actual conditions and results of the so-called Sexual Revolution: it’s been bad for children. Just in case anyone is listening, or continuing to believe marxist/feminist claptrap.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.