re :We baby boomers reared too many kids without fathers out of our selfishness. It will come back to bite us.
.I guess you mean you, because I didn't.
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I guess you mean you, because I didn't."
You jumped to a conclusion on an assumption and wrote something personal. Do you believe that "the personal is political?" The divorce rate problem in our generation is common knowledge.
In the following, you'll see as to why socialists have been pushing feminist policies into our government, and why it is dangerous for our Republican Party to pander to feminism. More singles vote Democrat than do marrieds, and more women vote Democrat than do men.
"Then it will be plain that the first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex back into public industry, and that this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society" (Frederick Engels, "Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State").
Mao's Little Red Book on Women
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Mao/Mao-31-Women.html
Some of Lenin's words on women
http://www.marx.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm
The following is from the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" (Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Fredrick Engels)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
"The bourgeois sees his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women."
He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.
For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial."
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included) (Karl Marx Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann, MECW, Volume 43, p. 184,
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1868/letters/68_12_12.htm)
Feminists (both men and women favoring romanticism, because they want to fool around) spawned quite a number of social programs that we don't need and aren't working.
Any of us who agreed with behavior that is conducive to divorce/cohabitation are guilty of having contributed to the trend. ...ever obviously leered at another man's wife/bed-mate in front of friends? ...ever come to the "rescue" of or agreed with a woman who was complaining about her husband?
You may have heard or read about our US Constitution with regard to debtors' prisons. Many of our soldiers now in Iraq are drawing less pay than they did in their civilian jobs. Those among them who get into arrears on their "child support" (general reapportionment to divorcing women) can be imprisoned when they get home due to our Child Support Act law. Those whose wives have found other men while they were gone and accuse them of domestic violence might also send them to prison by way of our Violence Against Women Act. One such accusation (no court trial and no need for them to be present in court), and one firearm or piece of ammunition found in their possession, and they will be sent to prisons.
Those laws are unconstitutional and are certainly anti-conservative. May all in our country be subject to prisons for any debts, and may all be subject to imprisonments for mere accusations. They deserve it for allowing our Constitution to be trampled against the few.
Our peers continue to be selfish, though their children are most affected by their divorcing/cohabiting behaviors.