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Conservative view: Duh. Told you so. This is the result of a moral breakdown.
Liberal view: Single moms should get checks and tax breaks.
The slimes actually published this.... wow.
>The single-mother revolution has been an economic catastrophe for women.
Well DUH! What other possible outcome could there be?
From this: Imagine an America with 70 percent fewer juvenile delinquents, 70 percent fewer teenage births, 63 to 70 percent fewer teenage suicides, and 70 percent to 90 percent fewer runaways and you will appreciate what the sainted single mothers have accomplished.
Soon it will be single gay parents. Get your kid early so you can start hormone treatments.
Dan Quail was right.
The single-mother revolution shouldn’t need much introduction. It started in the 1960s when the nation began to sever the historical connection between marriage and childbearing and to turn single motherhood and the fatherless family into a viable, even welcome, arrangement for children and for society.
Translation: Social enginering once again, via OPM, broke up the family (particularly the black family) and turned otherwise healthy and productive people into dependent sadsacks.
Probably created hirer crime rates because people have a justification. Its other rich people’s fault I am poor..etc
It’s not just a catastrophe for them- when the government subsidizes this, it becomes a catastrophe for all of us. Most of these single moms get welfare benefits and get to bring up their offspring with crap like WIC. If they have enough kids and compound it with some ‘disability’ then they can approximate a salary easily equal to many full-time jobs. And yet somehow it is impossible to be a fiscon and a socon....bs.
Lots of information, but it's a pity the author didn't bother to mention the number one reason for the so-called single-mother revolution:
In the 1960s, the government implemented many welfare programs that in effect paid women many benefits to have children out-of-wedlock. A kid out-of-wedlock soon became the ticket to a government financed, lower middle class lifestyle. More and more takers ever since.
"So, how's mah "Great Society" workin' out for ya, Phadnah?"
bfl
There are a lot of single parents struggling to do whats right.I’ve worked with many of them. I won’t lump them in with the single parents who just do what they want and let the grandparents and the government worry about their children.
I deal with these people all the time.
What truly gets me angry is that the WIC girls bring their boyfriends/husbands to the store and pull out their WIC checks and get their free items while the guy is just standing there smiling. Many times the girl asks HIM if he’s sure he wants apples INSTEAD OF oranges OR strawberries. She then pulls out her EBT card to pay for pop, chips, steaks for bbq, shrimp, cake, icecream, ETC. The guy buys himself 2-3 cases of beer and they leave smiling from ear to ear. There are hundreds like them.
Why work when the Gov is paying you to sit on your fat useless lazy a$$ and so nothing! It’s the taxpayers the Gov is crapping on until we all wake-up and change the way things are.
There are over 100 comments posted on the LATimes site, almost all of them proving that this country is beyond hope.
Surprised to see this in the LA Times. I live in the inner city and it is almost a rite of passage for a women to get pregnant, and then start on welfare, and have a boyfriend move in.
Present Costs of the War against God: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html
These biological parents raise offspring with statistically higher rates of incarceration, drug abuse and illegitimacy. And the cycle repeats generation after generation. Growing like stray cats.
The comments on this article at the original site are so incredibly stupid they make my hair hurt.
They are worse than those at the WaPo.
Really pathetic people and Obama voters to a man/woman undoubtedly.
I had hoped that this type of big government conservatism nonsense had been beaten down with the removal of Dubya. Here we go again.
Yes single moms aren’t ideal and often are a drain on the economy & society IF repeat IF the woman only has high school degree or less. A factoid that the author of this piece leaves out is that single women with a BA or higher have the educational background to provide a middle class lifestyle for their kid(s) which does not necessitate the use of government bennies.
The unspoken reason that the “compassionate conservative” buffoon leaves that out is to trumpet and demand a big government solution - alter Federal policy to increase marriage levels. Once again, big government does not work! Leave me and my family alone. Keep your hands off of my firearms and my pocket book.