Posted on 03/03/2007 9:38:09 PM PST by carlo3b
A conservative man named Bernard Chapin wrote as to why it's happening (behind the links). Feminists in both parties (definitely not morally conservative) continue to push denial, man-hating propaganda, and anti-family legislation (anti-Second-Amendment VAWA, so-called "Child Support Act" and other legislation introduced by Hillary's girls). There are too many enticements to cohabit/divorce.
The Presumption Against Marriage
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/chapin/chapin3.html
The Presumption Against Marriage, Part II
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/chapin/chapin4.html
Exactly.
Have more kids, get a bigger check, let the government take care of the kids and 'mother', who the h*ll knows where the father is or even who he is. And yes, many of them are white trash.
Want you head to blow off?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794824/posts
It is a good thing we had kids that skew the numbers in favor of marriage, but the norm isn't in our gaggle of friends.. I had a number of businesses that employed a true cross-section of the culture and I assure you, that wasn't nearly as optimistic..
Well, look at this...
Blaine Harden can't make up his mind.
Aug. 14, 2001
Times reporter Blaine Harden noted the significant increase in marriage among blacks, the "widespread agreement among welfare experts that something remarkable has been going on in poor urban communities," the "confluence of positive trends" including falling crime, falling poverty, greater employment, lower drug abuse, and a falling teen birth rate. Liberal child welfare expert Kristin Moore talked of a "tipping point" at which these changes might "pick up speed." Liberal welfare reform foe Wendell Primus--who quit his Clinton administration job to protest the 1996 law--was quoted saying "Whatever we have been doing over the last five years, we ought to keep going."
http://tinyurl.com/3dx6ms
Absolutely correct! This article is, statistically speaking, unsound because it fails to consider the age distribution of the population. The growing population of seniors (i.e., aging babu boomers), simply aren't going to have children at home --- they've grown and gone (and are probably having children of their own).
Since the statistics are bad, the conclusions are bad --- and it is silly to start discussing contributing factors when the truth of the statistical assertion is highly doubtful.
Instead of speculating about "causation" and/or blaiming liberals, it makes more sense to write the Post and demand their reporter be sent to a remedial course in statistics/demographics!
The reduction in marriage is the direct result of the divorce culture that instilled doubt in today's youth. Many avoid marriage for fear of failure. I'm somewhat optimistic believing the trend will turn around.
OMG! lol!
A friend of ours is the chief of police in town and you wouldn't believe what they find in some 'homes'. One place had their kids sleeping in dresser drawers and I don't mean 'little' kids.
Don't even ask what the school nurse finds. It's so sad.
When the 'parents' are too damned lazy to get up and walk their kids to school to EAT the FREE meals I want to beat the crap out of them! So, what do they do? They steal candy from the local convenience store.
Or, how about the 'grandparent's' who use them as prostitutes to pay for their their crack addiction?
This means that you would venture to say that there are far more men who abandon their wives and children than there are wives and children who abandon their men.
I seems like you meant to say that more men DO NOT abandon their wives and children than DO, although you didn't really come close.
We need to bring back public humiliation: I'm all for horsewhipping.
BTW and O/T: I bought those bowls; they are fabulous; if you ever need any, I've got 16 of them. :-)
Great. I'm sure your niece appreciates your hard work!
My son is just back from Iraq and living in a condo, that's 2.
My daughter just got married (not preggers yet), that's 3.
Our other 23-year-old daughter is single (until I've paid for her sister's wedding) and moving out of state for a better job and to be closer to her intended. That's 4.
I guess the only kid defending the married-with-children-in-the-family ideal is our oldest, who is married with 3 kids.
That's 4 out of 5 and we're a very "traditional conservative family."
Charles Murray, Richard Herrnstein, "The Bell Curve", 1994.
Is this another one of them "It's Men's Fault" threads ??
just askin',,,;0)
In your neighborhood, assuming you are still somewhere in the inner city, you will encounter more than one culture that doesn't share your values..
Their family unit isn't solid, but fragmented, some folks in his or her family haven't got a married member of the family and may not have any friend that have a nuclear family on their block..
Thats a problem, but not the only problem.. That Black family was traditional in the 50's, with better marital demographics, than we have now.. The new Hispanic family are learning from them, that a husband is a financial detriment, and more children, especially children with developmental problems are preferable..
Now, add that those disgusting facts that the new white generation, fears marriage, using their own family as a guide, they are choosing to hit and run relationships..
It will only get worse unless we reintroduce SHAME back into our lexicon..
HELL NO, this is square on the womens shoulders.. This is a feminist crime, and the average woman allowed it to happen we their encouragement.. Heck they are even selling the young male children down the drains, buy allowing the lesbians neuter them..
We conduct our PTA meetings over the kitchen table.
We're homeschoolers.
Oh, and EVERYBODY cooks AND cleans in this house, not just Mama.
American Idol is something I learned about from the guys at work, because we don't have TV. I still don't really know what it is.
My perception is that it's exhibitionism on national television by delusional poseurs for the voyeurism of derisive cynics from the comfort of their lazy boys.
An earlier poster indicated, correctly, that the selfish and self-absorbed who look upon children as a general nuisance, and something to be avoided, even if you have to kill them before or as they are being born, will select themselves out of the gene pool.
I congratulate this perceptive brother on his fourth child.
We have eleven, two married, one in Bible college, and eight still at home, being homeschooled. By the mercy and grace of God, they'll all grow up good conservative Christians with solid traditions and a Godly moral compass. That is my prayer.
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I am encouraging my sons to take a long look at the foreign girls that are students at there school.. Especially the eastern block, and Asian girls.. staying away from the western cultures for a while to get a better break in their relationships..
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