Thank LBJ and his Democrat monsters for this.
End Welfare = End Fatherlessness.
Any takers?
Wouldn't it be better if there were no fathers at all?
Too bad Walker didn’t discuss this in humility as he first began running for office, acknowledging his second son and that some relationships have been too emotionally scarred to have a father in the kids life but we must hope and pray and be humble and patient with God’s mercy and timing. Then he woukdn’t be a danged hypocrite.
Government fix?
The government caused it!
Now, at the age of 58, I finally feel like I might be catching up to my age. Hard ta tell, tho'.
I thought I knew somethin one time, but it turned out ta be BS.. d:^D
It’s elementary economics: If you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. Government — the left and the impotent right — has been subsidizing bastardy for several generations now.
Here’s a possibility -
Men have always pursued women. Womens’ job was to step on the brakes until they see a child-raising partnership.
Women think they don’t have that responsibility any more because of birth control, careers, etc., and they find that they kinda like sex just for the fun of it and it really is fun.
Result, accidents happen and neither party wants that child-raising partnership with the baby daddy.
So you have mommies (unless they abort) and the daddy gets the blame for disappearing. But the mommy is equally to blame. It’ the nature of men to roam and the nature of women to feel close to their children and not roam.
But time marches on. Nature taking its course. Then there’s the influence of low-life entertainers. Well, we know their acting is low-life. They are emulating their own peers and trying to make a buck.
Government can’t fix it, but since government is actually the majority contributor to the problem, if they just reversed their foolish policies and got out of the way, the problem would probably fix itself. But even a majority of Republicans still favor the policies that led to this, so I don’t expect it to change.
It Takes A Village
The mother of my sons demanded a divorce when my oldest was a junior in high school and my youngest was in the 7th grade. I did my best to stay close to them and relevant to their lives but I got put in a very difficult position.
Even though I had joint custody, my job required travel. It might have been a mistake, but since I traveled in my job, I thought it would be better that they have the stability of living with their mother and not have to swap back and forth between homes. It resulted in isolation for me and lack of influence. At best, I was on the outside looking in. Their mother would call me up every now and then wanting me to chew them out about something. In other words, she wanted me to play bad cop. It doesn’t work that way because they just wouldn’t come to my house if a reprimand was waiting.
The result: Neither accomplished up to their capability in the world of employment and responsibility. Neither attend church regularly. Neither has married. The oldest became a meth addict, but has been clean about 3 years now. The youngest dabbled some with drugs, but has been clean for years. The youngest has a far better employment record than the oldest, but he seems to be married to the restaurant business. He was capable of far more.
Now, my sons look to me as their stable, go-to parent. They figured out their mother’s games on their own and there is much resentment toward her. They maintain their relationship with her, as they should. Bottom line, life was not as it should have been for my sons, and the divorce/ separation from my family had decidedly detrimental effects on the quality of their lives . . . mine, too. I get a sick feeling every time I think about it.