do I really have to say it???
Why on earth wouldn't a woman get a divorce if she was bored with a perfectly faithful and non-abusive husband? She doesn't have to prove infidelity or abuse, and the husband is powerless to prevent her from achieving a divorce if she wants. She's almost guaranteed to get the house, the kids, and if the husband is making a decent salary, thousands of tax-free dollars a month in child support. A discontented woman has zero to lose, except a husband she's gotten bored with.
If "family law" (an oymoron in the U.S.) changed the laws so that, for example, there was a cap on child support of say, $600 a month no matter the husband's income, or that "shared custody" wasn't the scam it is today but was actually "shared" in that the kids spent equal amounts of time with dad as with mom, or that mom (who gets custody about 90% of the time) was required to prove that she actually spent the child support on the kids ... THEN I think we'd see a significant reduction in single moms and fatherless homes. But right now, women bored in their marriages have nothing to lose by getting divorced.
“Courage is the foundation of all the other virtues.”
Major Products of the “War On Poverty”:
1 - Cost of the “War On Poverty” now estimated at almost $20 Trillion dollars (in inflation-adjusted dollars) In comparison, all the military wars in U.S. history have cost a total of $6.4 trillion
2 - Since the “War” began, up to 85% of black children have been raised in single-parent, mother-child homes.
3 - Poverty rate for black children is 3 times higher than the national average
4 - Blacks constitute only about 13% of the population but account for more than 30% of the abortions.
5 - The abortion rate for blacks is about 3 times the US abortion rate.
6 - Black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
7 - On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States
8 - Estimated number of black babies aborted since 1973 = about 16 million. Total black population in 2010 census = 39.3 million (12.6% of US total) That means that almost 30% of the potential black population has been lost to abortions in the last 40 years.
do I really have to say it??? “On the other hand, those who opt for single motherhood are hurting not just themselves but their offspring. “
And there lies the problem. Single, poor mothers don’t give a crap about their children. It’s just another check as far as they are concerned.
The Rockefeller Foundation played the pivotal role.
Screw you Enemedia and Murphy Brown/Candice Bergen. Dan Quayle still looks pretty smart on the important stuff.
I feel rabid irrational feminism is the root cause for the socio-cultural break down of morals, ethics, tradition, family....on and on and on.
The role of ‘mother’ has been so diminished and morphed into ‘I am Woman hear me roar for MY needs...to hell with sacrifice for family and children.
Single moms, drugs and crime, go together like a check on the first, a dime bag of crack, a forty, and a stolen flat screen.
Babymamadrama ping.
It’s also about four generations worth, and no sign of abating.
How can you extol the virtues and benefits of being married when your mother and grandmother were single mothers?
It’s little wonder this nation is in the trouble it is in. No disrespect to women, but my father was the one who gave me my work ethic. He was around in my life daily to do it.