The Child Support Agenda

Men's News Daily ^ | July 17, 2002 | Roger F. Gay

[Entropy Squared]

Marriage is a bad deal for men and young men are figuring it out. Imagine entering into a contract where only you had to abide by the terms of the agreement. It's a one-way street now due to the divorce courts' political orientation. Young men today are figuring it out. Marxists believe the family must be destroyed. They are winning.

[RogerFGay]

To rescue marriage, address divorce

The federal government has recently claimed an interest in encouraging marriage on the grounds that children who are raised in a two-parent home seem to do better emotionally, intellectually and socially than those who are not.

There are a number of reasons, however, why marriage won't become more attractive until the rules and regulations pertaining to divorce are revised. The administration will have little success with one until it properly considers the other.

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[RogerFGay]

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/26jul/russianwoman.htm

When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it. 'To clear the family out of the accumulated dust of the ages we had to give it a good shakeup, and we did,' declared Madame Smidovich, a leading Communist and active participant in the recent discussion. So one of the first decrees of the Soviet Government abolished the term 'illegitimate children.' This was done simply by equalizing the legal status of all children, whether born in wedlock or out of it, and now the Soviet Government boasts that Russia is the only country where there are no illegitimate children. The father of a child is forced to contribute to its support, usually paying the mother a third of his salary in the event of a separation, provided she has no other means of livelihood.

[RogerFGay]

"Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare-up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. ... The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. ... The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, about the hallowed correlation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and industry and labor."

- Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto