[reaganaut1]

Good. Not so long ago, most Americans thought unmarried people should not have children. If unmarried people did not have children, lots of our social problems would diminish. The GOP should NOT push for an expansion in the earned income tax credit, which likely goes disproportionately to the unmarried, because they have lower incomes.

[GraceG]

[ Good. Not so long ago, most Americans thought unmarried people should not have children. If unmarried people did not have children, lots of our social problems would diminish. The GOP should NOT push for an expansion in the earned income tax credit, which likely goes disproportionately to the unmarried, because they have lower incomes. ]

Oh but we cannot have those “social stigmas” against single parents.... that is just so mean....

[PGR88]

Fishtown vs. Belmont

The poor will continue to exhibit social behaviors that will cement them in poverty and government dependence.

[txrefugee]

Wonder how much of this is due to mm wishing up and deciding they are better off with a dog instead of a wife. They have met women who marry for a living and leave a trail of broke exes in their wake.

Married or unmarried women who are morally deficient should not be rearing children, who would be prone to repeating the life style they observed growing up. This generational failure has been devastating to our nation.

[Steve_Seattle]

"the rise of income inequality has divided Americans into those who marry and those who don’t."

The problem is not "income inequality" per se, but the declining wages of the middle class. The existence of millionaires and billionaires does not prevent ordinary people from having babies, but when you need two incomes (in most cases) to sustain a middle-class lifestyle, babies are likely to be fewer.

When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, very few of the women on my middle-class street worked outside the home. Shoe salesmen could afford to buy a house on their income alone. Those days are long gone. The question is, why?

[MrB]

A growing body of research, including work by Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Cherlin, raises the possibility that because people like to feel financially secure before taking the marriage plunge, the rise of income inequality has divided Americans into those who marry and those who don’t.

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Cause and effect inversion, anyone?

Thinking themselves wise, they blatantly expose themselves as the obviously biggest dumbasses imaginable.... (a paraphrase)