All in the family: Why a strong, intact home life is the biggest single factor in raising good kids

CERC ^ | 10.03.05 | John Leo

[Clemenza]

Single motherhood has done more to destroy the American male than all the feminist propaganda in the world.

[MarMema]

Thanks for posting.

[Giant Conservative]

Daughters and sons alike need their fathers living in the same home as they do. Nothing less is enough.

[tryingtomakesenseofthis]

Note that the blame always goes to the "deadbeat" men or the absence of men, never to the idiot women who are giving birth to children they are ill-equipped to raise.

Peggy Drexler, the author of a new book, Raising Boys Without Men, says people who promote intact families are playing a "blame game" against single mothers.

You bet I am.

[caryatid]

It took the media a while to acknowledge that most of Katrina's victims were black. Apparently, it will take longer to mention that most of the victims were women and children.

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The absolutely false statements in this article are contradicted by the facts. New Orleans was nearly 70% black at the time of the Hurricane ... yet only 42% of identified corpses are black. Statistics male/female have not been reported; however, age statistics have been reported. 60% of the identified corpses were over the age of 60.

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Katrina casualties in New Orleans mostly elderly

Oct 24, 2005, 5:43 GMT

NEW ORLEANS, LA, United States (UPI) -- The elderly, many of them unable to leave or suffering from severe medical problems, were a majority of the Hurricane Katrina casualties in New Orleans.

'You had a combination of devastating flood waters and elderly and infirm populations with fewer resources,' Dr. Jullette Saussy, the city`s director of Emergency Medical Services, told the Times Picayune. 'That equals fatalities.'

A total of 1,056 bodies had been recovered in Louisiana as of Friday, 700 of them in Orleans Parish. Drowning and medical conditions aggravated by the loss of power, lack of medication or medical care and the intense heat were the major causes of death.

Sixty percent of the victims with known ages were 60 or older.

In St. Bernard Parish, where at least 123 people died, Coroner Bryan Bertucci said most were in their 60s or 70s. He said only one was a child.

The newspaper said that, at least in the city, age appears to have been the biggest factor, trumping race, income and geographical location.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International

[TAdams8591]

In the raising of good children, there is NOTHING more CRUCIAL than a strong, intact family life. NOTHING.

[TAdams8591]

"In a large sample of students in 315 classrooms in 11 cities, the "single most important variable" in gang involvement was found to be family structure."

Gangs take the place of intact families in most instances. How sad.

[nmh]

This should be common sense but TODAY we need study after study after study to confirm this. This outcome just doesn't fit the liberal - it takes a village - would view.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

Yes, yes, and yes.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

[little jeremiah]

Single motherhood is the direct result of feminist propaganda. It's feminism in action.

"A woman needs a husband likes fish needs a bicycle."

[msf92497]

My wife and I were discussing this issue last night. The number one threat to our nation is the disintegration of the family.

[apackof2]

a "blame game" against single mothers.

Both single moms AND deadbeat dads are to blame, it takes two

[WasDougsLamb]

I am a single mom whose husband and baby boy were killed by a drunk driver which left me with 2 daughters to raise on my own through NO fault of mine. I have a 20 year old and a 5 year old. I am putting my daughter through college as we speak ON MY OWN. I am doing the very best I can and I believe that if life hands us a situation where our husbands are taken, we as single moms can do it. I have worked ALL my life since I graduated from college. I didn't choose to be a single mother. A drunk chose to kill my family and leave me this way.

[Chickensoup]

The lie here is that the author is discussing SINGLE mothers. There are lots of kinds of mothers who are alone.

Widowed mothers
Separated mothers
Divorced mothers
Unwed mothers

The MSM calls them all single to decrease the stigma of unwed motherhood. Yet unwed mothers stunningly terrible child statistics and widowed mothers have child statistics that are more close to the statistics of two parent families.

[Lindykim]

That we must actually work to Convince people of these things, speaks many sad and tragic things about the spiritually sick state of our nation.

[Tax-chick]

The other family types studied were single mother, cohabiting stepfather, and married stepfather families.

Am I the only one who's getting tired of seeing "stepfather" used to mean "man who was living with somebody's mother at the time the crime was committed"?

[Tax-chick]

I think they're using "victims" in a general sense, "people who suffered loss or harm," rather than the more specific category of people who died.

[WasDougsLamb]

My point was that a SINGLE mother, for whatever reason, CAN raise decent children if she tries hard enough and wants to make productive citizens for the future. My comment was directed at a staement in the article:

"In 19 of the 20 studies that found family structure to have an effect, children from nonintact or single-parent families had a higher rate of crime or delinquency"

Thanks anyway for the input.