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Decoupling Children and Marriage (Why are more and more American babies being born out of wedlock?)
Christian Post ^ | 6/27/2009 | Charles Colson

Posted on 06/28/2009 8:51:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/28/2009 8:51:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

A wedding ring is a woman’s license to steal. That’s how many men view it.


2 posted on 06/28/2009 8:56:37 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: SeekAndFind

When you don’t teach children responsibility and raise them on welfare, what do you expect? It doesn’t take a genious to figure it out. Unless of course you want to make money on writing articles over and over and over. Yep, let’s do another study. Even though everyone knows the answer.


3 posted on 06/28/2009 8:57:13 AM PDT by RC2
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To: SeekAndFind

The answer is pretty simple - men don’t want to get married. Our society has spent years depicting marriage and children in a negative light and promoting sex as the be-all and end-all of life. Men no longer have pride in fatherhood, and they can get all the sex they want without being married or even having a permanent relationship with a woman, so what’s the incentive?

In fairness, there are probably women like this, too. But many if not most women do want children, but they’re having trouble finding men who want them as well.


4 posted on 06/28/2009 8:58:32 AM PDT by livius
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(Why are more and more American babies being born out of wedlock?)

Social engineering through government has made it too costly an endeavor to be married.

5 posted on 06/28/2009 8:58:50 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yup, bastards raised in a bureau, the very definition of socialism. I’m grateful and happy that I got to grow up and live most of my life in an America which is now only a memory.

Riding the Santa Fe Superchief and flying in a Lockheed Super Connie are among my fondest memories.


6 posted on 06/28/2009 8:59:54 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Uh, Mr. President, did you lose your contact lense OR ARE YOU PRAYING?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m thinking the “Me-First” culture that we live in is a historical fluke born of prosperity... prosperity of western civilization in general, and the US in particular. What happens as we begin the big crunch and the coming generations do not enjoy as high a standard of living as we? Do they return to the basics?


7 posted on 06/28/2009 8:59:56 AM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: EGPWS

Our welfare system has made it possible for a young women immigrant to have a US citizen at the expense of the US taxpwyer. This adds greatly to the single parent families which serves the welfare state by providing more jobs and money to service their “clients”.


8 posted on 06/28/2009 9:00:53 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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I’ll take draconian divorce laws for half of everything I own, ever hope to own, and everthing once owned, Alex.


9 posted on 06/28/2009 9:00:59 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 160 of our national holiday from reality.)
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"(Why are more and more American babies being born out of wedlock?)"

No American babies are born in wedlock anymore, because genuine marriage hasn't existed in this country since no-fault divorce was introduced. The best you get here anymore is wedlatch, not wedlock—a purely temporary and severable alignment of financial interests, like an LLC only with less paperwork. Wedlatch is almost completely meaningless when it comes to the permanent legal obligations of child-raising. So the real question isn't why more babies are born outside of marriage, but why any are still born inside it.

10 posted on 06/28/2009 9:01:22 AM PDT by Fabozz
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To: SeekAndFind
Our three daughters have been the joy of our existence. They are in their teens now, and we have thoroughly enjoyed each and every age and stage (and NO - I do not have "Gramnesia" - the term I coined after my mother, who, when the kids were little would often say, "YOU kids never behaved like THAT!". We worked very hard, as a unit and as a family, and that effort has paid off big time.

That being said, I can't imagine tackling the job without MGD. Had single parenthood thrust itself upon either one of us, we would have done our best, of course, but I wouldn't wish that voluntarily upon anyone.

11 posted on 06/28/2009 9:01:24 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (What's the difference between God and Obama? Liberals LOVE Obama)
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12 posted on 06/28/2009 9:04:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: livius

There’s another side to it—fewer and fewer men are being seen as someone a woman would want to spend the next 50 years living with. Few women are without marriage options: not enough of those options are appealing to them.


13 posted on 06/28/2009 9:05:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps looking at the demographics will help. Those with the highest out of wedlock rates...hispanic women and black women. Also, married women are having fewer children, driving the percentage of out of wedlock upward.


14 posted on 06/28/2009 9:06:05 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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Has nothing to do with welfare. What we have is a quite normal out of wedlock birth rate, but an abnormally low birth rate otherwise.

The leftwingtards have been killing off their first born at a ferocious rate. The poor, but honest common people haven't followed their lead since they love their babies.

So what happens is that in the first generation the "uptight oh so proper" people kill off their kids until they get married, and then manage to kill every other one thereafter.

The class who "jus' have babies" don't. And they may or may not get married.

Come the next generation, the "uptight oh so proper" class are fewer in number. However, their offspring who managed to survive momma's tender mercy carry out the same game plan and murder all their pre-borns prior to marriage, and half of them afterwards.

The "jus' have babies" crowd continue the same practices as always and they have kids who live to grow up to do the same thing.

After 5 generations of this stuff the "jus' have babies" crowd literally outnumber everybody else 10 to 1.

Praise God.

15 posted on 06/28/2009 9:11:59 AM PDT by muawiyah
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The numbers are there. With the Caucasian birth rate below the ‘replacement level’ our ‘Euro central’ society will be overwhelmed within two or less generations, probably by Muslims.


16 posted on 06/28/2009 9:12:41 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Because women are finding that they end up raising the child anyway. Men then become only the sperm donor.


17 posted on 06/28/2009 9:13:00 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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We are reaping the logical, natural consequences of the cultural and sexual revolutions.


18 posted on 06/28/2009 9:14:25 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: EGPWS
I disagree with your assertion. It is not too costly to get married. Indeed, there are tax breaks to promote marriage. The problem is that there is no apparent financial penalty for bearing children out of wedlock. No child should suffer for the bad choices his parents made. The parents should be made to suffer financially instead - but you can't divorce the child's money from the parent's money.

I don't believe draconian divorce laws are the cause of divorce either. I sympathize for those who have lost much financially in a bad marriage, but it's not the key issue.

The problem is that there is no pro-marriage attitude in America. Instead, young men are encouraged to live a footloose and unentangled life, without fatherhood. Young women want children but don't have good men to marry, so they shack up and bear what they can.

Now we see that the institution of marriage is under attack by homosexuals and polygamists.

The only regeneration of marriage is going to be internal. Young men need to find good, honest, young women and choose one to have a permanent and satisfying relationship. Money can't be the glue. ‘Freedom’ can't be the glue. It has to be the loving union of man and woman that grows and raises wanted children under the umbrella of marriage.

19 posted on 06/28/2009 9:16:34 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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You make a good point, but it’s hard on the babies who are killed.


20 posted on 06/28/2009 9:17:47 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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