Posted on 05/11/2026 10:06:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The West needs more mothers—with fathers—simply to sustain itself. The US birth rate is currently below 1.6 children per couple. (2.1 is needed to sustain the population).
Women are delaying marriage. Many are not having children and putting their careers first. Almost thirty percent of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+. There is also a current trend that sees women deciding to have children without fathers.
Over forty percent of births are paid for by Medicaid, which suggests that many are not just poor, but also single. One-quarter of American children are being raised in single-parent households. Divorce has become commonplace, as over 40% of first marriages end in divorce. The traditional family model is becoming the exception, as less than half of American children are being raised in a traditional, heterosexual, two-parent home.
Yet, with all that said, there are significant early trends and forces at work this Mother’s Day that are encouraging a return to the traditional family model.
Data show strong and increasing support for the traditional family in key religious sectors. Mormons, Evangelicals, and Orthodox Jews, for example, are marrying more frequently and are continuing to marry at younger ages than the national average. Many are also having more children than national average. Additionally, the best defense against divorce appears to be marrying early without prior cohabitation and having the same religious path as one’s partner, which is often the case with these groups.
In terms of outcomes, children raised by both a mother and a father fare better across a variety of measures, both societal and academic. Children from traditional marriages are far less likely to have academic performance problems, anxiety, depression, obesity, and other issues than children raised by single parents or same-sex couples.
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The power brokers of the West are unwilling remove all the contributing causes.
“paid for by Medicaid, which suggests that many are not just poor, but also single”
You fell right in to the trap.
Da Queen in da ‘Hood ain’t all of it.
One man, 4 “wives” nobody works, all paid by Medicaid.
One man in Schul, a religious ceremony wife, housing arrangements are hidden, so they are not in the same “household” so she’s legally still unmarried, gets all the welfare handouts + housing which cash goes to The Tribe.
Walk across the border, drop the kid in the sand, guess what? All medicaid/welfare for years to come.
Fat Arse Hillbilly Chick getting hosed by DaQuon pops ‘em out all over the Holler.
Being poor is not the crime.
Having the grifting Poverty Culture in your soul is.
Turn it all off. Not one more dime.
I Don’t Phookin Care Anymore.
The West simply needs to stop seeing republican parents surrender their children to the government dominated schools.
Democrats abort their young. These are republican children being indoctrinated into the left because the left has no children of its own.
What are we doing participating in this mess?
” Almost thirty percent of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+ “
Which is entirely the result of propagandizing.
There is no biological species which exhibits such behavior naturally for the simple reason that it would go extinct in a couple of generations.
As will the idiot children engaging in such behavior now.
But we shouldn’t tolerate them in our midst because of the damage they cause to the nation. If they want to live their little amazon fantasy, there’s always a jungle somewhere they can go colonize to try to live that way.
But of course we and they all know what happens if they do: they get obliterated by the locals.
Their existence here is only due to court ordered tolerance of their aberrance.
Where did this stat come from? 73% of black children do not have a father present in the home. For that, mothers get larger welfare benefits. Before that law, about half of black families had both parents present. How 'bout this: If two parents are not present, ALL transfer payments (welfare, medicaid, SNAP, etc) are 80% of their current levels. If both are present, it remains where it is. My guess is that mothers who face losing $5000-$9000 in benefits will go after the father to help share the duties. It's easy to be a father; it's tough to be a parent.
I think the 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBT... is BS.
One of the silliest ideas in science was the notion that sexual preferences are genetically determined. A consistent homosexual has 0 children; if that’s the result of mutation it is equivalent to a mutation that causes your lungs or brain not to develop, so far as reproductive capacity is concerned. It’s an argument that throws natural selection completely out the window. Yet virtually all those who supported such a notion were evolutionists who would in any other context claim that mutations plus natural selection are the explanation for biological design.
In most cases, it is a good choice for their own self-interest, but cumulatively, not a great outcome for the society at large.
I don’t think it ever came from serious biologists or was accepted by them.
Was a biology major back in the dark ages; homosexuality was classified as an aberration likely only present in < 1/2% of any species. Hermaphroditism in lower species is not the same thing, although it is hilariously invoked to justify homosexualism.
Remember we were all told that it was only about “tolerance” and “we’re not trying to change marriage”? That was only a few minutes ago in political time. But the Leftist social destruction machine deployed their judicial headchoppers and hacked thousands of years old biological based tradition to pieces with a few “decisions” and voila...Chesterton fences were ripped to shreds.
Undoubtedly there is a whole gang of “scientists” trying to track down this chimera known as the queer gene, but the Lysenkoists doing it will only end up as badly as he did.
The no children phenomena is massive and really want is at the center of population decline. I know of so many, at work especially, that just have no interest. Including many women, which is strange because I believe God put the desire for children in their programming. I know my daughters that is their number one goal in life. To have children. Their careers are secondary.
,,, AI will change that if the growth of it's use keeps going the way it is. AI will probably end up picking our partners for us and suggesting a divorce tax. It's pretty much going to be in control of so much in our lives in the medium/long term.
Orthodox Christians and Trad Catholics are doing their share...and then some!
My wife and I married agreeing to never divorce.
That makes both partners keep things good.
IOW nuclear families; God’s design.
If you are providentially hindered from being part of a nuclear family, God bless you for doing what you can. But the nuclear family is the optimum situation all things being equal.
Steal the children of the breeders.
Not a queer gene. Imprinted early sexual experiences.
Chick Tract little gospel comics
“Home Alone?”
Description: An emotional message against homosexuality and child abuse.”
https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=1039&ue=d
1) More immigration of Hispanic Christians is 1 answer.
2) No SNAP, Medicaid, TANF to lifestyle choices of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, STD is another answer.
3) ...
“Leftist social destruction machine”
To adopt that it is the role of the government to take care of us all...equally...it is necessary to destroy the family where some parents are unfair in that they do a better job than other parents... especially single parents.
You should see the scam in Hawaii. One woman will get knocked up by multiple “natives” and live on welfare her entire life. Everything paid for. Free house in the homesteads all because the one drop rule for natives. And of course, all the children will continue the scam. One child will bring it the equivalent of about $65k in welfare.
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