[Responsibility2nd]

Summary: Religous people divorce less.

[econjack]

"Boys are in trouble today primarily because their parents, and especially their dads, are distracted, overworked, harassed, exhausted, disinterested, chemically dependent, divorced, unable to cope or simply not there."

We could probably also add that many gov't programs (e.g., aid to dependent children) encourage dads to stay away until he wants to "reappear" and is in the "right" mood.

[LearsFool]

"Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee"

The family is the great obstacle to social pathologies and political ideologies which corrupt civilizations and weaken societies. The West is losing the battle without even knowing there's a war on.

[JohnLongIsland]

all the statistics stated above are the direct result of forty some odd years of liberal policies.

[Soliton]

Heterosexual males are the most vilified minority in America. Name any TV sitcom, even supposedly "family friendly" ones like Everybody Loves Raymond, or King of Queens and you will see that the father is a boob and the mother is a genius. In American culture, all wives are Marge and all men are Homer unless you are one of the "elite", then it's all Desperate Housewives.

[Random Access]

It’s interesting that there is no racial breakdown of the statistics. It seems everything else, from the average number of french fries per serving to the cost of haircuts is always broken down along racial lines.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Less to cast blame then to seek solutions, what needs to be done?

1) To start with, motherhood is too important for government to force women to work as well, through high taxes. “Productivity” does far less for our nation than well raised children. Therefore married couples with children need to have their taxes slashed.

2) Typically, the cost of housing in an area rises to about 50% of net wages. This is intolerably high, and does not reflect the market value of housing, any more than if ordinary cars were priced starting at $150,000, by tacit agreement of the car manufacturers. This problem needs to be addressed from some direction.

3) Religions must enforce marriage. In essence, they must vet potential couples, train them for married life, arbitrate disagreements, and strictly control divorce. If they decide to divorce in a civil action, that divorce may not be recognized by their religion if it is frivolous, and so they may not remarry in their church.

Religions should also petition government to affirm their right to regulate marriage within their faith, and even to seek agreements with other religions to recognize the sanctimony of their marriages as well.

4) The design of housing needs to be adapted so that small communities of “multi-family friendly” homes are built, so that they contain young couples that want or have small children, and exclude singles and older people. The homes are designed so that these families can easily help support each other, and their children can have extended socialization with each other.

5) In turn, this means the stabilization of America’s work force, so that families can stay in the same location for many years. This involves corporations avoiding personnel relocations, especially of young married couples.