Atlas shrugging takes many forms.
We’re only about a generation away from being a giant ghetto.
The children of the middle class need marriage too. Fatherless families have produce a class of adult males with the moral comprehension of children.
While the stigma of out of wedlock pregnancy has been diminished to the point of zero so has the one hope a young boy might have for some direction in his life while growing up fatherless.
When did Kathleen Parker decide to be conservative again? Wasn’t she the turncoat from CNN? AKA the female David Frum/David Brooks?
Political mavens have been all over to explain Romney’s loss to Obama, but few, if any, have cited the rise of single parent households which I believe has an enormous influence on which party will prevail.
The maturing process that comes from making a marriage work helps in other areas of life as well. People that resist marriage so they don’t have to grow up only hurt themselves. People that marry but refuse to mature unfortunately hurt others as well.
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Big government fouls everything it touches. Somehow that truth gets lost on people here when it comes to using big government to meddle in the private lives of others. Marriage should be a pact between the two people involved and their church with the only legal consideration being the seamless trasfer of assets upon the death of one spouse.
But instead you all demand that it be a federal public/private partnership, complete with permission slips from the feds, middle class welfare payments and incentives to the states to break up more than half of those partnerships.
It might feel good to blame this mess on the homosexuals and gangsta rap, but every effort you make to get the government to “save” an institution where it has zero constitutional authority only makes matters worse.
...authored by five family scholars....
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Odd phrasing.
I have a huge extended family, as my parents had 9 children. So, at any given time, I can probably name 5 family scholars.
That’s okay with most politically active adults. Perpetually amorous Sandra Fluke has free birth control, and that is the priority for 51% of voters (a substantial percentage of whom are customers of hers).
Wives aren't supposed to be "partners," and they certainly aren't supposed to be bosses. Wives are supposed to be chaste, subordinate, kind, gentle keepers or the home and children. In case you hadn't noticed, women are tyrannical thugs who hate children, and hate their homes. They dump kids in God-forsaken public schools, or worse, murder them before they are even born, so they can be "free" to escape their responsibilities at home. The ones that bother to earn money instead of collecting child support and welfare use it to fill their debt-heavy home with cheap Chinese garbage. And I'm supposed to not only accept all this evil, I'm supposed to adjust my life to better accommodate her plans. No thanks.
You can blame government all day, but I doubt highly that government can force women to be awful, materialistic child-haters. It is clearly their natural state.
Excellent point. Recently ran into a kid I grew up with in the old neighborhood. I don’t think he finished high-school (has a GED maybe). Some other members of the family became criminal near-do-wells. But he is doing well.
Main reasons are 1) he has remained steadily employed since becoming an adult, and 2) he married well and stayed married to a very smart girl who has deftly managed their household affairs.
Evil if you’re a conservative, twice evil if you’re white, three evils if you’re male, and the soul of all that’s wrong with our society if you’re single. When marriage was the norm men were at fault for disempowering and dominating women. When divorce was the norm men were at fault for not making women feel complete. Now avoiding the whole affair is becoming the norm and men are responsible for the downfall of society.
I wouldn’t be so quick to fault some men for rising from a game that is constantly dealing to them from the bottom of the deck. However, men should never shirk their responsibilities. It’s all in what the “aggrieved gender” thinks the “faulty gender”, should be responsible for. In many relationships it’s simply everything the superior gender doesn’t want to be responsible for, herself.
Leviticus 16:22 “He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task. 22 The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.”
Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.