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Single People Are Singlehandedly Changing American Society
Inverse Culture ^ | 04/26/2017 | Bella DePaulo

Posted on 04/27/2017 6:58:00 PM PDT by BJ1

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Usually articles lament the decline of marriage. This one says it's a good thing. Conventional wisdom is changing?
1 posted on 04/27/2017 6:58:00 PM PDT by BJ1
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It’s all part of an evil scheme to make divorce lawyers have to file for unemployment.


2 posted on 04/27/2017 7:01:09 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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Conventional wisdom is subject to change.


3 posted on 04/27/2017 7:02:23 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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Children?
The future belongs to those who show up ...
4 posted on 04/27/2017 7:03:20 PM PDT by IWontSubmit (2)
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This lasts about 1 or at most 2 generations.

Then the people who think this way disappear.

Kinda like the Democrat party.


5 posted on 04/27/2017 7:04:42 PM PDT by Regulator
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Yeah, those children tend to turn into people...


6 posted on 04/27/2017 7:05:35 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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The Communists plan to destroy the family by destroying marriage is successful.

When the next generation comes, comes the collapse of society.

As planned.

Perhaps the John Bircher’s were correct...........


7 posted on 04/27/2017 7:11:56 PM PDT by Arlis
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In this self-absorbed society that’s all about gratification (immediate), good luck convincing the gluttonous morons about having kids and what a future is.

Most Americans decided abortion, contraception, “free love”, DINK (double-income, no kids) was the way to go to enjoy everything this world has to offer.

They leave no legacy and nobody will remember them.


8 posted on 04/27/2017 7:12:37 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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Single people have a lot of disposable income, they pay a lot of taxes and don’t use a lot of tax payer resources.


9 posted on 04/27/2017 7:13:08 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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Satan sez: Destroy the family and you destroy the children. Destroy the children and you destroy the nation.


10 posted on 04/27/2017 7:13:32 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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No, this moron is PUSHING this unfounded opinion.

Perhaps single people are happy in their 20s, or even in their 30s, and the immature, even longer; or so they tell themselves. And the older they get, the unhappier they are. But being single allows spoiled brats to never really grow up and to also retain bad habits.

These singles aren't Monks or Nuns, living in a community!

11 posted on 04/27/2017 7:16:47 PM PDT by nopardons
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I think I'll just leave this here...


12 posted on 04/27/2017 7:16:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Looks like the “Population Bomb” written about by the so called experts of the 60’s era totally fizzled. The same type of thinking is pushing global warming, today.


13 posted on 04/27/2017 7:17:50 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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>>Single people have a lot of disposable income, they pay a lot of taxes and don’t use a lot of tax payer resources.<<

Hey I have no problem with single people.

I had to chuckle about how “social” single people are. Once they learn how most other people pretty much suck IN REAL LIFE, that shall pass as so many other things in life.


14 posted on 04/27/2017 7:18:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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Hooray for nihilistic fatalism!


15 posted on 04/27/2017 7:20:25 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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It doesn’t change the fundamental economics when there is no followup generation to pick up the costs of the previous generations.


16 posted on 04/27/2017 7:21:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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The problem is based on a cultural flaw. It is essential that children, boys and girls, are raised with, and continually interact with each other in a chaperoned situation, *without* being distracted by school or religious studies. That is, it must be done as a *complement* for these, since students cannot study and interact at the same time.

For decades now, the assumption that children will socialize with each other “in school or church”, but the truth is that they are kept too busy there to do that. They need a LOT more.

Right now, the children who are best off have at least one sibling of the opposite gender near their age, from whom they learn how the other gender lives and interacts with their gender.

It is far better that children have peers that most of whom will be with them for years. The same group through elementary and even secondary school. This means there needs to be employment stability, so that their parents do not need to move to find work, taking their children with them.

But children who have been raised this better way will be much more inclined to lasting marriage, and even larger families.


17 posted on 04/27/2017 7:28:16 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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I tend to think single adults have some type of disability or deformaty that makes family and procreation unattainable. I’m not convinced their single life is always their goal.


18 posted on 04/27/2017 7:36:27 PM PDT by GreatRoad
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Smash the patriarchy.
Smash monogamy.
Smash the establishment.

Thanks to the Feminazi Marxists.


19 posted on 04/27/2017 7:36:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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Single people, especially single women, vote overwhelmingly Democratic/Liberal. That alone tells you if it is a healthy way to live.

It certainly is not, and it harms women the most.


20 posted on 04/27/2017 7:39:40 PM PDT by SarahPalin2012
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