Posted on 07/14/2013 12:00:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A sparkling clean canteen in a community center, where families talk quietly over their sandwiches. At the counter, a fight breaks out between five young men. The cook tries to calm the men down and asks them to leave, but it gets nastier—chairs are thrown; a knife is produced. “See them? How angry they be?” an older man sitting outside says to me. “Not one of them ever knew their fathers.” …
Areas such as Ladywood, an inner-city corner of Birmingham, are utterly dominated by single-parent families. And the effects are devastating. … The area has the highest number of people claiming unemployment benefits in the country, and those who are in work are struggling to pay the bills: some 48 percent of households here have an annual income of less than £15,000 ($22,654.50). …
While fatherlessness may be the norm in Ladywood, the impact of it should not be underestimated. American researchers have found that a girl’s self-esteem is seriously undermined by not having a father in her life. Many abandoned boys engage in delinquent behavior, incapable of managing their anger, and some studies reveal links between fatherless men and sex crimes. …
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It’s a sad, sad situation. God only wants them to accept saving grace and just bring it to a stop, even if it takes trouble to stop it.
I do have some disagreements on details with the “loyal opposition” (without naming denominations by name). Sometimes men get in the way of the plan of salvation (it very much happens in all camps). And, while God can and does work around such hindrances (just as the proud and misleading Pharisees, told off by Jesus, yet did not prevent Jews from being devout directly towards the Lord) they make the task tougher than it would otherwise need to be. I heartily wish there didn’t exist such disagreements as they hinder the ability of Christendom to work with one another... and yet I undeniably see that the Blood is thicker than any Mud. I believe and see that the Holy Spirit does act through and in spite of all the fog of men and that nobody can claim to have chained the gospel into their cage.
“blacks there too. What to make of that?”
The Latino rate in the US is about 53%. For non-Hispanic whites 30% and Asians 17%.
In Iceland 66% of births are out of wedlock. 55% in Sweden, 54% in Norway, 50% in France, 46% in Denmark.
In the UK the white rate of out of wedlock births is greater than the non-white rate.
men to all that. Very good thoughts here, Redneck.
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