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| Marriage Is the Key to Spending Cuts |
| 2011-02-05 |
| The attack on the institution of marriage is not only the biggest cultural but also the biggest fiscal issue of our times, and political and judicial attacks by gays are only part of the problem. Marriage is being assaulted by unilateral divorce, feminist hostility toward marriage, the bias of family courts against fathers, and the taxpayer-paid financial incentives that subsidize illegitimate births. ...A lack of marriage causes poverty. The poverty rate for single parents with children is 36.5 percent, while it is only 6.4 percent for married couples with children. We just suffered the largest increase in government-designated poverty: 3.7 million more Americans moved into the "poor" column in 2009. The number of Americans receiving food stamps just rose to a record 41.8 million. Obama's solution for the poverty problem is more redistribution of money from taxpayers to the poor. But there's no evidence that more money is the remedy because we've been increasing handouts every year and the problem keeps getting worse. Contrary to a lot of chatter, this isn't a teenage problem (only 7.7% of new single moms are minors), and it isn't a failure of birth control, and it isn't the accidents of unplanned pregnancies. These single moms want their babies and confidently expect Big Brother to provide for them. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 TW, thank you. FaI, relax. Just a cheap shot at my ex. If I may close the logical circuit, I agree that these types may well do everyone a favor by self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-02-06 00:01 |
| #6 Might I also add, a culture of self-absorption and immediate gratification that romanticizes immature drifters, whose fear of responsibility and loss of youth and independence permanently outweighs any desire to put down roots and reproduce. Flawed logic if I have ever read it. Beg to differ on most cases of childless adults. It takes self awareness in some cases, not all, to admit to oneself that one is not cut out for parenting, and furthermore much better to realize this pre not post child. It seems awfully overly simplistic to call childless people immature on that count alone, going either way. Some people ARE mature enough to know they SHOULDN'T or don't want to reproduce. Wish there were more of them, actually, because there are too many terribly bad parents today who should have used contraception. |
| Posted by: Fire and Ice 2011-02-05 21:57 |
| #5 Good news is, it didn't take me long to lose the zero and find a hero. :) Belated congratulations, Random JD. Clearly you already fulfilled the good wishes. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-05 14:38 |
| #4 Marriage is being assaulted by unilateral divorce, feminist hostility toward marriage, the bias of family courts against fathers, and the taxpayer-paid financial incentives that subsidize illegitimate births. Might I also add, a culture of self-absorption and immediate gratification that romanticizes immature drifters, whose fear of responsibility and loss of youth and independence permanently outweighs any desire to put down roots and reproduce. Good news is, it didn't take me long to lose the zero and find a hero. :) |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-02-05 13:04 |
| #3 These single moms want their babies and confidently expect Big Brother to provide for them. A hundred years ago you had a lot of children hoping that some of them would make it to adulthood, since child mortality rates were much higher. That's because there was no social security or major pension systems in place. Your children were your old age support [as in - honor thy father and mother]. Today the state et al provides bankrupting levels of support for the older generations in their last 10-20 years, so now the kids are produced to provide support for the first twenty years. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-05 12:30 |
| #2 Vice versa for me, eLarson. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-02-05 11:10 |
| #1 Since I got married I know I have spent a lot less money, particularly in the category of "stupid stuff no one ever needs." |
| Posted by: eLarson 2011-02-05 10:43 |