[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes, it turns out that contraception, sterilization and abortion can destroy families, nations and civilizations. Who'da thunkit?

Related news flash: it also turns out that children flourish best in a family that has (a) a mother and (b) a father who are (c) married to each other.

Here's just one indicator: in 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan published "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," his research found that the major cause of Black poverty, welfare dependency, low academic achievement, high crime, etc. was out-of-wedlock childbirth, resulting in father-absent families. He said the Negro family was "in an unprecedented crisis" of "social pathology" largely because 25% of births were out of wedlock. (This was compared with 3% white illegitimacy.)

Today 25% of White births are out of wedlock--- compared to 15% of Asian-American births, 45% of Hispanic births, and almost 70% of black births.

If it was an "unprecedented crisis" of "social pathology" 40 years ago, what is it now?

Twenty-somethings and thirty-something, quit messin' around. Get married. And then --- hey! You know what to do.

[RKBA Democrat]

"Twenty-somethings and thirty-something, quit messin' around. Get married. And then --- hey! You know what to do."

Given that the broad social trends seem to be toward cohabitation rather than marriage, perhaps it might be more effective to encourage those who already do "get it" to do what's necessary to have larger families.

The future I see here is one of polarization. On our side of the divide it will be the large Christian families that thrive. Interestingly, America will probably be a much more Mormon country in the future. That and Catholic and Evangelical.

The lukewarm amongst us are self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool. They and their potential progeny won't be around to matter in 50 or so years.