Posted on 12/19/2012 11:58:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
As politicians compete to prove who loves the middle class more, they’re missing the elephant and the donkey in the room.
The middle class needs not just tax breaks and jobs, but also marriage.
This is the finding of a new University of Virginia and Institute for American Values report, “The State of Our Unions,” which tracks the decline of marriage among the nearly 60 percent of Americans who have high school but not college educations.
This not only has far-reaching societal repercussions, but economic as well. By one estimate cited in the report, which was authored by five family scholars, the cost to taxpayers when stable families fail to form is about $112 billion annually—or more than $1 trillion per decade. …
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Atlas shrugging takes many forms.
We’re only about a generation away from being a giant ghetto.
Well, duh. It is much more financially lucrative to “not” marry.
As I have said on this forum for TEN YEARS now, to derision of the snotty class: We have our own people who need jobs that will pay a wage that takes care of a family. These are people who are not cut out for college or a high-paying trade. There are tens of millions of them...and our imbecilic leaders have given away their meager dreams to China & a bunch of usurping Mexicans.
I wonder what these geniuses expected to happen when a single mother has a better lifestyle on “benefits” than she would if she married the Father?
This should be titled “Marriage Declines Due to the Weakened Middle Class.”
The marriage decline happened first, though.
I think most people don’t even want to consider that possibility.
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.
Well my boy is 4 and is hrowing up in a two parent house and it seems most of the kids in his preschool are two parent houses. Granted, it is and expensive private school right next to an Air Force Base, buy there isn’t zero hope, just a slim hope.
No it did not...maybe amongst black families, but no other. Perhaps you were confused when I said that I had been pointing this out for ten years..I am an early Freeper from back in 2001.
This economic mayhem for the middle class has been GOING ON since the 80's; I should have been more clear.
It's really quite simple. When Daddy makes enough to provide a better lifestyle than Uncle Sam, there will be marriage...as in anything else in life...follow the money.
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It definitely goes back further. The divorce culture was really roaring back into vogue post-WWII (since there was no legal no-fault, a great deal of the divorces were “uncontested”), and the welfare state stuck the knife in deeper. Economic prosperity does not cause strong families; it’s the other way around, and that is why the Founding Fathers stressed religion and private morality, not Mammon.
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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.
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