Posted on 08/04/2024 5:09:17 PM PDT by Red6
Percentage of children born out of wedlock in France from 1994 to 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/957229/births-out-of-wedlock-france/
This is the consequence of an ultra liberal agenda.
***Every policy to protect women, guarantee equal rights, protect children, etc. is in reality ANTI male and ANTI family.
I a liberal (not classic liberalism) society, if you marry and divorce, what happens to your property, what you worked for?
Best to just screw, have children and live together, but never really marry or form a union which gives your mate legal power (backed by the force of government) over your affairs.
It is the consequence of perversion, where pedophiles, homosexuals, and other weirdos have rights, social benefits, and families are left in the cold, with some marginal perk while government spends enormous sums on LGBTQIAA+ initiatives etc.
Look at Macron himself. A childless man married to his school teacher, 24 years his senior, and no one in the MSM even really talks about how "weird" that is.
But I shouldn't laugh at France, since we're in the same boat, just a few years behind them on some of the leftist social issues.
This is because both America 🇺🇸 and France 🇫🇷 have turned their backs on God, have kicked Him out of the public square and their hearts ♥️ and told Him they want nothing to do with Him.
pay wall...
https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Cropped-Wedlock.jpeg?resize=1024,576
In case link above does not open for you.
It’s a 65% now based on newest statistics.
I know, I hate those with a passion.
WOW
Over 10 years ago my daughter was giving birth at an upstate NY hospital in a good neighborhood. The nurses were amazed to learn that she and the father were married.
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I can remember being a schoolchild before the Great Society. EVERYONE had their dad at home. I remember the stigma attached to actually being a bastard. The Welfare State makes fathers optional.
I remember one boy in our neighborhood whose parents had divorced. It was a stigma. Us young’uns didn’t understand what in the world that meant.
Interesting that the countries we’re told to hate are doing FAR BETTER in raising kids in 2-parent families.
Makes one wonder why we keep getting played in this way...
Sure was a different America
The least you could have done is let everyone there was a pay wall.
Randy Newsome. His sister had a different last name than he did. Scandalous. I haven’t seen him in sixty years but I remember his circumstance.
It’s not always blocked. I think the first time you visit that news site it works.
But another link with a graphic was provided in the follow on post to myself for you in case that happens.
We were that household and it was rare, the neighbors didn’t really approve of it, one reason we were so poor is that my mother had zero to do with any government programs, I didn’t even know that Texas had them or that white people could get them until visiting relatives in California when I was a teenager and asking someone what those government food cans were on their shelf.
It’s 39% in the US. We’re catching up.
An increase in children born out of wedlock insures an increase in children living in single parent households (usually only a mother), and any increase in children living in single parent households also will reflect more children living in poverty, and more children living in poverty with single parent, mother only, households is also seen to be represnted in an increase in crime among the children raised in such households.
It’s a social death spiral.
Before the 1960s, births out of wedlock represented less than 5% of the total in most European countries. Now, more than half of children born in France — and 10 other European countries — have unmarried parents. The U.S. as a whole is not there (yet), but there is substantial variation between the states.
In 1938, just 4.1% of children in the UK were born to unmarried mothers. And in Germany in 1950, the figure was no higher than 2.4%. Sweden was a relative outlier, with 8.6% of children born in 1940 having unwed mothers. However, after World War II, and especially since the social changes of the 1960s and 1970s — which led to greater social and economic autonomy for individuals — that figure has kept rising across Europe. As this map shows, children born out of wedlock are now in the majority in a substantial number of European countries, mainly (but not exclusively) in the north and west of the continent.
The highest percent is in Iceland, where nearly 7 out of 10 children (69.4%) are born outside of marriage. Second is France, with well over 6 out of 10 births (62.2%) out of wedlock. Bulgaria, atypically in the east, is in third place (59.6%). https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/births-out-of-wedlock-europe-us/
https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/sites/default/files/images/chamie-chartPicture1-500px858.png
In 1960, nonmarital births were quite rare. Today, about two-fifths of all births are to unmarried women. This resulted from a complicated combination of moral and behavioral changes, and a new report from Senator Mike Lee’s Social Capital Project disentangles them...The first key fact is that the Sexual Revolution had opposite effects on the childbearing rates of married and unmarried women. Married couples’ fertility rate plummeted by about a third in the 1960s and early 1970s, almost certainly thanks to the introduction of the Pill at the beginning of that period.
But the unmarried changed their behavior, too. This is a group that had previously limited its sexual activity, out of concern about both unwanted pregnancy and social opprobrium. They had sex earlier and more frequently as they gained access to the Pill and as shifting mores made premarital sex less taboo. Further societal changes made unmarried childbearing, not just sex, more acceptable, such that half of births from nonmarital pregnancies today are intended. These changes swamped the Pill’s ability to reduce the chance of pregnancy.
God's order is for women to normally bear children, in valid marriage, for which they are uniquely created to do, thank God.
Meanwhile,
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