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America Has World’s Highest Rate of Single-Parent Households
Washington Free Beacon ^ | December 15, 2019 | Charles Fain Lehman

Posted on 12/16/2019 6:28:45 AM PST by C19fan

The United States has a higher share of single-parent households than 129 other countries, a recent analysis from the Pew Research Center reveals.

Twenty-three percent of U.S. children live with a single adult, Pew found, compared with an average of just 7 percent around the world. Of the 130 countries from which Pew obtained survey data, rates of single-parent households ranged from the low 20s in the United States and United Kingdom to as low as 1 or 2 percent in countries like Turkey and Afghanistan.

The report suggests that America's record-high rate, a product of the steady decline in two-parent homes in the United States, is related to the move away from extended family structure in Western nations and toward a more isolated model for children and adults alike. The result is another part of the complicated story of family and marriage inequity in the United States.

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Social liberals like to say Scandinavia has similar or higher bastard rates than the US. But that is where the similarity ends. In Europe bastard kids are much more likely to be in a 2 parent household; the couple never bothered getting married and many will get married in the future. In the US, bastard kids are associated with a baby mamma living alone with no support from the biological father.
1 posted on 12/16/2019 6:28:45 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Ladies can learn to keep their legs closed.

But few people think they are adult enough for crazy stuff like that. So that’s why we pay them to be stupid.


2 posted on 12/16/2019 6:33:20 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Smash the Patriarchy.

This was the GOAL of NOW Feminazis

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200158/posts
Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett

...Sometime later, I was a young divorcee with a small child. At the urging of my sister, I relocated to NYC after spending years married to an American executive stationed in Southeast Asia. The marriage over, I was making a new life for my daughter and me. Katie said, “Come to New York. We’re making revolution! Some of us are starting the National Organization of Women and you can be part of it.”

I hadn’t seen her for years. Although she had tormented me when we were youngsters, those memories were faint after my Asian traumas and the break-up of my marriage. I foolishly mistook her for sanctuary in a storm. With so much time and distance between us, I had forgotten her emotional instability.

And so began my period as an unwitting witness to history. I stayed with Kate and her lovable Japanese husband, Fumio, in a dilapidated loft on The Bowery as she finished her first book, a PhD thesis for Columbia University, “Sexual Politics.”

It was 1969. Kate invited me to join her for a gathering at the home of her friend, Lila Karp. They called the assemblage a “consciousness-raising-group,” a typical communist exercise, something practiced in Maoist China. We gathered at a large table as the chairperson opened the meeting with a back-and-forth recitation, like a Litany, a type of prayer done in Catholic Church. But now it was Marxism, the Church of the Left, mimicking religious practice:

“Why are we here today?” she asked.
“To make revolution,” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution,” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American Patriarch,” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
Their answer left me dumbstruck, breathless, disbelieving my ears. Was I on planet earth? Who were these people?

“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!” they resounded.

They proceeded with a long discussion on how to advance these goals by establishing The National Organization of Women. It was clear they desired nothing less than the utter deconstruction of Western society. The upshot was that the only way to do this was “to invade every American institution. Every one must be permeated with ‘The Revolution’”: The media, the educational system, universities, high schools, K-12, school boards, etc.; then, the judiciary, the legislatures, the executive branches and even the library system.

It fell on my ears as a ludicrous scheme, as if they were a band of highly imaginative children planning a Brinks robbery; a lark trumped up on a snowy night amongst a group of spoiled brats over booze and hashish.

To me, this sounded silly. I was enduring culture shock after having been cut-off from my homeland, living in Third-World countries for years with not one trip back to the United States. I was one of those people who, upon returning to American soil, fell out of the plane blubbering with ecstasy at being home in the USA. I knelt on the ground covering it with kisses. I had learned just exactly how delicious was the land of my birth and didn’t care what anyone thought because they just hadn’t seen what I had or been where I had been. I had seen factory workers and sex-slaves chained to walls.

How could they know? Asia is beyond our ken and, as they say, utterly inscrutable, and a kind of hell I never intended to revisit. I lived there, not junketed, not visited like sweet little tourists — I’d conducted households and tried to raise a child. I had outgrown the communism of my university days and was clumsily groping my way back to God.

How could twelve American women who were the most respectable types imaginable — clean and privileged graduates of esteemed institutions: Columbia, Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley, Vassar; the uncle of one was Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt — plot such a thing? Most had advanced degrees and appeared cogent, bright, reasonable and good. How did these people rationally believe they could succeed with such vicious grandiosity? And why?

I dismissed it as academic-lounge air-castle-building. I continued with my new life in New York while my sister became famous publishing her books, featured on the cover of “Time Magazine.” “Time” called her “the Karl Marx of the Women’s Movement.” This was because her book laid out a course in Marxism 101 for women. Her thesis: The family is a den of slavery with the man as the Bourgeoisie and the woman and children as the Proletariat. The only hope for women’s “liberation” (communism’s favorite word for leading minions into inextricable slavery; “liberation,” and much like “collective” – please run from it, run for your life) was this new “Women’s Movement.” Her books captivated the academic classes and soon “Women’s Studies” courses were installed in colleges in a steady wave across the nation with Kate Millett books as required reading.

Imagine this: a girl of seventeen or eighteen at the kitchen table with Mom studying the syllabus for her first year of college and there’s a class called “Women’s Studies.” “Hmmm, this could be interesting,” says Mom. “Maybe you could get something out of this...”


3 posted on 12/16/2019 6:34:49 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: C19fan

Thank cancerous liberalism and progressivism........


4 posted on 12/16/2019 6:34:57 AM PST by cranked
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What a sad statistic. 23% of America’s children destined for failure. Yea, I said it.


5 posted on 12/16/2019 6:34:58 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: VanDeKoik

The government sponsors single parent households with payments. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.


6 posted on 12/16/2019 6:35:43 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Easier to control the population if families are broken up. Feral children are like rats on the wharf.


7 posted on 12/16/2019 6:35:55 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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This is just under the percentage of illegitimacy in the Black population in the 70’s. Today that percentage is up to 80%. If the majority follows that trend line we are done.


8 posted on 12/16/2019 6:36:16 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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Women only express a desire to say NO to sex when they want to force men to do something.

Look at all of the Femme-journal and blog posts about denying men sex if they voted for Republicans or don’t go vote for Hillary.


9 posted on 12/16/2019 6:36:29 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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I remember the days when divorced women with kids would simply say: “I am divorced.” These days, they act like they are the heroes of the universe and glare at you to say: I am a SINGLE MOM!!! “
10 posted on 12/16/2019 6:36:38 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Property of the State. It takes a village to indoctrinate your children to spy on his or her parents.


11 posted on 12/16/2019 6:37:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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In the US, bastard kids are associated with a baby mamma living alone with no support from the biological father.

And increasingly by highly educated, financially successful uber-Feminists who believe that they don't need no steenking man in order to procreate.


12 posted on 12/16/2019 6:37:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SkyPilot

On Father’s Day there are ads and articles with single women saying “I deserve recognition for being the mom & the dad!”


13 posted on 12/16/2019 6:38:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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Just think about how we could save the environment with two parent households............................


14 posted on 12/16/2019 6:38:33 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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You know, takes two to make children and likewise men can learn to keep it zipped up in their pants.


15 posted on 12/16/2019 6:39:25 AM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: VanDeKoik

That’s how you collect welfare and pay for Daddy’s beer.


16 posted on 12/16/2019 6:39:27 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Turkey and Afghanistan...where the brides are age 10?


17 posted on 12/16/2019 6:40:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I wouldn’t say that they are all destined for failure but the odds are against them.

There are plenty of people who endured hardships growing up (including being sent to orphanages) who did everything they could to get ahead in life and become heads of industries.

But when the culture encourages people to “stay in your lot in life” (”quit acting white!”) they’ve been dragged back down into the bucket of crabs from which they almost escaped.


18 posted on 12/16/2019 6:41:10 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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Hey! You broke the unwritten FR rule! Only women are responsible for illegitimate kids. Men are victims.


19 posted on 12/16/2019 6:43:50 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: a fool in paradise

Mark


20 posted on 12/16/2019 6:44:07 AM PST by sport
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