Posted on 05/20/2009 1:21:50 PM PDT by mojito
A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics with the dry title, "Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States," contains startling news: births to single mothers, which had leveled off in the early 2000s, have risen sharply in recent years. In 2007, nearly 40 percent of all babies born in the United States were born to single women, up from 34 percent in 2002. Some sociologists believe we have reached a tipping point: the link between marriage and parenthood is no longer the norm. Why is this happening, and what does it mean for women, children, and men? There are no simple answers - only difficult questions that we ignore at our peril.
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I blame the ‘no fault divorce’/ ‘get half his stuff’ thing.
Most of these births seem to be among women aged 25-35. Many of them are cohabitating with the fathers, but without marrying them.
Fewer ladies and gentlemen; more pigs. It's the age of instant gratification and entitlement combined with the same old story since the beginning: selfish pride.
Men need wives. Women need husbands. But, we're been stuck on "me" for so long now, children who need mothers AND fathers are lucky if they get one or the other to take on the role of parent.
The biggest beneficiaries of abortion and contraception is single (and married) men looking to score. It took away the last excuse for less self-assured women to say no.
You and me both. But, the more I think about it, that wasn't the cause; it was only a symptom. It certainly helped speed up our ride in this handbasket.
Huh? You are going to shoot single mothers?
If you look at the historical stats, the inflection point was the Great Society.
Way to go Lyndon Johnson and pals.
Personally responsible for destruction of the black family in America.
men never listen anyway, so what’s the difference? LOL
Roe, no-fault, all symptoms of a crumbling foundation, or was it some ideology taking a sledghammer to the foundation?
Your first sentence of your post is incoherent
More babies born out of wedlock due to rape and incest one and two generations ago than today?
Are you on some sort of medication ?
That's what my wife tells me, at least I think that's what she said.
Are single motherhood mothers different mothers than the unwed mothers we read about?
The word you’ve probably never heard, Cathy, is “bastardy” — a condition that once carried enough social shame to keep it relatively rare.
Divorce has become ruination and enslavement. No thank you.
Oh, goodness no. I propose to shoot those that create the norms and values that make single motherhood socially acceptable. Single mothers are merely pawns in this great game of social de-evolution.
Sarcasm noted. But I know at least half a dozen (smart, conservative) women who’ve said they’d cheerfully give up their own right to vote if it meant the rest of the females in the country could be banned from the polls as well.
You and Ann C
You are completely wrong. I don't have the statistics at hand, but rape, incest, premarital sex, bastard children, and so on are all a product of the liberal sex and drugs revolution of the 60's onward. All crime indexes follow accordingly as well.
Prior to that time, these behaviors were comparatively unheard of.
Perhaps it is the resulting fruit of the "Great Society" as well, but there is absolutely no doubt that the moral decline is the single contributing factor. Without that, you would not be paying for anyone's bastard children, nor the crime and enforcement that go with it.
Isn’t that No fault divorce, get ALL his stuff?
When I worked with middle school kids a few years ago I found that the bastard to (whatever the opposite of a bastard is) ratio was about 50/50. Those kids had no idea that there was a stigma about it, and the 12-yr-old mexi moms in the schools were actually held in high esteem by their peers because they had a baby, and that was their goal in life according to their culture. They had photos of their underwight preemie babies in the Trapper Keepers and all the other mexi girls huddled around them and fawned over the photos. It sickened me.
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