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2005-10-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Births to Unmarried U.S. Women Set Record

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Posted by Mom 2005-10-29 07:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 WTF?

Posted by closedanger">closedanger 2005-10-29 08:27|| 2005-10-29 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I have only one thing to say : http://www.africancrisis.org/images/USAFederalAssistance.jpg
(ok, not completly to the point, my bad).

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-29 10:06|| 2005-10-29 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Basically, the three major causes of poverty in America -

Substance Abuse [free will]
Single Female Head of Household [free will]
Blowing off one's education [partial free will, partial teachers union]

We can do something about the last one, but all poverty programs will fail unless it is understood that as long as we allow people free choices there will always be those who choose self destructive behaviors. Therefore there will aways be some poverty in a free society.

Posted by Crereter Thuting1079 2005-10-29 10:30|| 2005-10-29 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 There is one major cause of poverty in America.

Insufficient consequences.

Government social action is directed toward ameliorating the consequences of the behaviors CT1079 identified instead of making their consequences more intense and public, thus dioscouraging the next generation from indulging in them.

Posted by Theash Thinter5706 2005-10-29 12:00|| 2005-10-29 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Crereter - WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!! Poverty is caused by George Bush. Don't you bother to read the MSM? Poverty only occurs during Republican administrations, and instantly vanishes whenever Dems are in office.

Posted by DMFD 2005-10-29 12:08|| 2005-10-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, since Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell say the same thing CT1079 does, I guess he's right.

Three of my daughter's 'friends' in high school have had children in the last year, including one that's only 16 NOW, which means she was 15 when she became pregnant. This year's graduating class from her high school had 59 people that didn't graduate because of pregnancies or childbirth, out of 335.

TT5706 is also right that lack of NEGATIVE consequences sends a message to these women that it's "ok". I don't think we should go back to stoning "adultresses", but these children need to learn that there are consequences for doing stupid things. Getting pregnant in high school, unless you're married, is STUPID.

Of my daughter's friends, only one plans to finish her high school education, which means the other two will have even greater difficulty later in life. My daughter plans to get married this summer, but insists she'll finish her college education before she has children.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-10-29 15:26|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-10-29 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Feed them yourself and pay for their jailboard twenty years later. No excuses such as the devil (substance abuse) made me do it. Or poverty; animals feed their young, etc. They do because they can take our work proceeds.

Posted by Bardo 2005-10-29 17:11|| 2005-10-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

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