You touch on a point I bring up often. The “Great Society” program of the 1960s made a very socially destructive form of behavior possible. Giving money and housing to unmarried welfare recipients not only creates future criminals and future parasites, it encourages exactly the wrong sort of behavior. (promiscuity) Back when there were bad consequences for being loose, we had a lot less of it.
How right you are. I used to love Diana Ross and the Supremes singing that old song, “Love Child.” I don’t know when they sung it, maybe the 60s? But that notion is so foreign to us now.
She was telling her man in the song that she DID TOO love m and want him. But she didn’t want to do what he was “wanting” because she didn’t want to create a child like she was, a Love Child, a shame to her family, who grew up dirt poor in second hand dresses and knew the shame at school of being that unplanned pregnancy.
WHAT A CONCEPT. My first husband, in Europe, was such a love child, and in Switzerland it was still shameful then. Everyone knew it meant poverty and shame.
I think we were better off then. Kids deserve a more secure, higher income family where a loving parent watches the child all day.
...Love Child...
Oh yeah. Pop culture once reflected the commonly accepted notion that traditional marriage was the ideal.
I can remember a time when girls were shamed for being promiscuous and boys were excoriated for taking advantage of them.
There’d always be that one “popular” girl who suddenly disappeared from
school, only to return a few months later, acting much quieter, staring off into space. Everyone knew she’d been sent off to the nuns to have the baby she’d given up for adoption.
She was the negative example held up by parents and teachers. Don’t be like her.
Nowadays red carpet celebrities don’t even try to look elegant or classy. Skanky is trendy. Schoolgirls march proudly in the annual “slut walk.”
Virgins and traditional marriage proponents are considered freaks, extremists, bigots, haters.