Posted on 08/24/2008 1:45:30 PM PDT by buccaneer81
personal ping
Honestly I detest Obama, but black men not paying their child support is a huge problem. I have no sympathy for people who act irresponsibly and father children (mostly out of wedlock) and then refuse to support them. This is the reason why crime runs rampant in black communities. The test scores of children from married black families are just about the same as the test scores of children from married white families.
Obama would be a terrible president, but I think he is dead-on whenever he speaks about black men needing to step up, even if it is just talk.
Forgot to mention that the real problem is not the lack of child support being paid, but the lack of fathers IN the houses, if that wasn’t obvious.
“This is the reason why crime runs rampant in black communities”
The breakdown of the family and victim mentality are why crime runs high in many predominately black communities.
Being poor does not cause crime. Lacking a stable family and moral teaching does.
I am wondering...When did it become required to bash fathers on Father’s Day?
My son and his wife live in Nebraska. They only want their family of four together and they have no issues with each other. But this war on fathers by the feminists have taken their children away and after four months wonder why these 23 year old parents are feeling suicidal. What’s a young mother, who’s purpose in life is her kids, to feel and do? Four months tolerating her kids under the direction of the state of Nebraska; they feel helpless.
My wife and I are the kids grandparents and are willing to provide custody. My son’s lawyer is telling him that he and his wife cannot even direct this. They have to surrender their custody and take the chance that the almighty state will send the kids to their grandparents.
Biden has done well.
I'm unclear how the presence of a criminal thug father is of great benefit to children. Please explain it to me.
What did I say that contradicts what you said?
I agree. It’s not a poor thing.
Married black people, regardless of income, raise better families than single people of any race, but certainly black mothers as well.
Agreed, but that's only part of the story. Some support orders are ridiculously high, and a job loss can put a father behind real quick. But many men want at least 50/50 custody, and that is almost always ignored. And the jailing of innocent men based on lies is a national scandal.
The biggest losers, in the end, are the kids.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
About the same time women started telling men off when men tried to hold a door open for them in public.
How can a father with multiple bastard children by multiple, often under age, mothers live with the children at home.
Which is worse, Morman polygamy where fathers live with their wives and children at home, or black urban society where they don’t.
American Society disallows the former but tolerates the latter.
Truth is not racism
I’m truly sorry for you and your family. I hope things turn out well.
Yet at the same time, more and more money is poured into social programs that make it more lucrative and more attractive for young parents NOT to be married. Married couples have their incomes counted together, making them ineligible for Medicaid/Medi-cal, food stamps, Section 8 housing, child care subsidies, and a good many other programs that make it more attractive for struggling young couples to stay unmarried. It is one of the reasons for the explosion of illegitimacy, especially among the lower class.
Those criminal thug fathers probably grew up without a dad in their home. They can stop the cycle if they want to.
There is also a lack of respect for Dads. One of my pet peeves is commercials that makes fathers look like idiots and moms run the house.
At the risk of sounding like a tin foil hat wearer, it’s all part of the long march of Marxism. Destroy the family, have the state take control of the children (just look at the schools) and dictate the living conditions of the masses. The ‘Rats have it down to a science; keep poor people down and dependent on government and call anyone who objects to their policies racists or elitists.
Sitcoms, too. Men's News Daily keeps track of advertisers who malign men and families.
“At the risk of sounding like a tin foil hat wearer, it’s all part of the long march of Marxism. Destroy the family, have the state take control of the children”
Not ‘tin foil hat’ at all.
I think what you are saying is pretty well established.
The nanny state is alive and well.
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