Posted on 04/29/2011 1:52:57 PM PDT by Rhonda Robinson
According to a new study by the Centre for Social Justice, almost half of all children in the United Kingdom will see their married or cohabitating parents split up by the time they’re sixteen. Never before in Great Britain’s history has the breakdown of the family been so palpable.
Here in the United States things aren’t much different. According to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, one in four children in the United States is being raised by a single parent. The main reason for the high U.S. figure, say the experts, is the growing acceptance of single-parent child rearing.
The question is, should there be such widespread acceptance of single-parent child rearing?
People struggle with this question for an obvious reason: just about everyone knows at least one person, if not ten, who is either a product of a single-parent household or is a single parent. Thus, Americans are reluctant to say anything disparaging about single parents. Indeed, the desire not to offend has become an epidemic in this country. When Ann Coulter pointed out in 2009 that 70% of prison inmates come from single-parent families, as do 70% of teenage runaways and drug addicts, she was accused of being insensitive. But in order to solve a problem of this magnitude, we’re going to have to step on some toes.
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Here in the United States things aren’t much different. According to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, one in four children in the United States is being raised by a single parent.
single parents -- what are you doing to your kids??? If you are NOT ready for the RESPONSIBILITY of KIDS --- DO NOT HAVE THEM!!!
The main reason for the high U.S. figure, say the experts, is the growing acceptance of single-parent child rearing.
Who said we are ACCEPTING it?? If you are WIDOWED, that is one thing... but serial divorce is NOT ACCEPTED!!
Exactly what the scumbag social architects and educational reformers of the 60s wanted.
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