I know of at least 8 women in the last 2 years - all in their 20s, all white and from 2-parent households that have gotten pregnant and had children (two lost their children - miscarriages) out of wedlock.
I commend them for not aborting the children. But what I don’t get is this notion that marriage is not an option. Most are living with their boyfriends or just indifferent to marriage. I assume it is simply fear of commitment.
It seems many have stopped honoring marriage. And its hard to make a strong case against alternative lifestyles diminishing its value to society if nobody really treats marriage as a sacred institution anymore.
Whatever happened to ‘When a man becomes a man, he puts away childish things”?
Well said. Today’s young men mostly don’t act like men, often because they were raised by single mothers and had no honorable mature male role models in their lives.
But I also blame young women now for their promiscuity, their unwillingness to have any standards of modesty, dignity or respect. If you act like a sl*t, why should a man treat you like a lady?
2 parent households are failing, then, given your example, to pass along the most important skills necessary for success. They are not inculcating their children with formal values, either because they don’t have them or don’t practice them.