Appalling..
Does this correlate with the increased number of people who don’t know whether they are a boy or girl?
Very sad.
And what percent of that 40% access one or more of the means tested, government poverty programs?
Just as the Democrats wanted.
When shame left the pubic marketplace of ideas this was inevitable.
The concept of “the baby did nothing wrong” was bad for society in that it established a milieu where it went from “a mistake” to condonation and subsidization.
Been behind more than a few at more than a few Wal*Marts filling out “the check” or whatever. IOW, not a normal checkbook. From big towns and small towns, too.
Keep on bashing ‘toxic’ masculinity and watch the numbers get even worse.
Keep on bashing ‘toxic’ masculinity and watch the numbers get even worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Millett
Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as “a seminal influence on second-wave feminism”, and is best known for her book Sexual Politics (1970),[1] which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes previously unimaginable “legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom” being made possible partially due to Millett’s efforts.[2]
...Millett questioned the origins of patriarchy, argued that sex-based oppression was both political and cultural,[26] and posited that undoing the traditional family was the key to true sexual revolution.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200158/posts
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett
...Sometime later, I was a young divorcee with a small child. At the urging of my sister, I relocated to NYC after spending years married to an American executive stationed in Southeast Asia. The marriage over, I was making a new life for my daughter and me. Katie said, “Come to New York. We’re making revolution! Some of us are starting the National Organization of Women and you can be part of it.”
I hadn’t seen her for years. Although she had tormented me when we were youngsters, those memories were faint after my Asian traumas and the break-up of my marriage. I foolishly mistook her for sanctuary in a storm. With so much time and distance between us, I had forgotten her emotional instability.
And so began my period as an unwitting witness to history. I stayed with Kate and her lovable Japanese husband, Fumio, in a dilapidated loft on The Bowery as she finished her first book, a PhD thesis for Columbia University, “Sexual Politics.”
It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:
“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.
They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.
It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish...
And that includes *all* races.
Feminist propaganda demonizing men has caused a lot of this.
And these are among the same women who have been co-opted by the Democrats. As a result of their personal bitterness resulting from their (self-induced) circumstances, the Democrats exploit that personal bitterness by deceiving these people into thinking that Democrats/Feminism/Class warfare are all speaking the truth to power on their behalf. In reality, Democrats are exploiting these people — after they have conveniently set these people up to fall into their own trap by telling them how wonderful and liberating it is to give your body away to your base instincts.
Chastity? Abstinence? Why it’s of no use! Just use a condom and there will be no consequences to doing whatever you want.
It is so sad to see so many lives destroyed, and yet people swallow this stuff hook, line, and sinker and then they naturally become bitter and blame everyone else - the rich, Conservatives, Republicans, Trump. All they have to do now is vote for a Democrat, not those meanie Republicans, and their lives will be better. What a scam. What a life-destroying scam.
20, 30 years ago these children would be born to poor, minority moms in rough parts of town.
Today they are being born to Millenial women, some of them financially well-off, who have CHOSEN to have a child without marriage.
I know of so many Millenial couples where they just never bother to make it official.
And the numbers are higher for certain minorities. Of course it violates political correctness to say so. But a strong majority of black babies are born out of wedlock nowadays.
Though now that we have reached 40% overall, clearly single motherhood is mainstream behavior now.
Anyone remember Dan Quayle, and how he was lambasted and pilloried for daring to touch this subject? I don’t think I’ve heard any politician or anyone in public life, say after that experience, that single motherhood is not good, is bad for society, etc. Political correctness is so strong in this country that we aren’t allowed to criticize bad life choices such as single motherhood.
The answer of course is to now start sex education in daycares and preschools because it is working just according to plan by having sex education in elementary schools. And only if we could add in more gender confusion at an earlier age. I’m sure that will work wonders. And, let’s talk about homosexuality in pre-school while were at it.
Man, these people are messed up!
How long before some over-educated, whack-job, Ivy League professor declares marriage to be a white privilege device to perpetuate racial discrimination?
And the disasters of single motherhood continue apace.
More jail time, more social pathologies, more welfare. Welfare enables this pathology and needs to be scaled waaay back.