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To: 7thOF7th
As I have stated in previous post similar to this one, these aberrations are the products of the entitlement system which creates them (liberal Democrats to blame!).

Easy, but wrong -- we're all to blame, in some sense. This is the confluence of at least three cultural failures.

First, we have come to accept illegitimacy as "normal," to the point where we think it's unfortunate and sub-optimal, but not really wrong. So there's that part.

Second, we've come to accept "living together" as "normal," and in most cases it's not even frowned upon -- it's just a lifestyle choice, among many others.

Third is, of course, sex. Sex is seen as something to be done for its own sake, because it's "fulfilling." As a rule, we don't frown on sex outside of marriage -- the old "consenting adults" thing is supposed to have superceded such stodgy thinking.

And so now we see the confluence of them here, and in too many similar cases. Mother of illegitimate kids once again mistakes sex for love, and shacks up with the man who ends up hurting or killing her kid.

It used to be that marriage was a requirement for cohabitation, sex, and kids -- and that's no longer the case. The culprits are not just liberal Democrats: we've all allowed those conditions to fester and flourish.

39 posted on 01/04/2008 11:43:34 AM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Easy, but wrong -- we're all to blame, in some sense. This is the confluence of at least three cultural failures.

Don't count me in the crowd you're describing.

55 posted on 01/04/2008 12:12:42 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
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To: r9etb

Speak for yourself.


58 posted on 01/04/2008 12:16:49 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: r9etb
Your insight goes much deeper than my terse explanation and I am in agreement with you. My brief rant was designed to evoke without inciting my awn anger. I failed, and I just want to wring this POS’s neck.
60 posted on 01/04/2008 12:22:38 PM PST by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: r9etb

You can count me out with your blame game.


75 posted on 01/04/2008 2:13:23 PM PST by nicmarlo
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