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Over 60% of the students at the school where I teach/sub are from single parent home.
They make up the bulk of the free/reduced lunch kids.
That's a sobering statement. People who cannot see what this is doing to the country I think need to gain some perspective.
Maybe marriage is on the way out, maybe in 100 years some other arrangement will guide our children. I don't know but what we are doing now is not working.
It was reported the other day on an inside page of the Pioneer Press, and without nearly enough fanfare, that more than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried. That is census data, from census demographers, from the very government that then becomes responsible for many, if not most, of those unmarried women and children
Unmarried doesn't necessarily mean single parenthood - it just means not married to the child's father.
I suspect that a very large percentage of those 6 out of 10 are in de facto relationships - i.e. they are living with the father of their children but not married to him.
I suspect that a very large percentage of those 6 out of 10 are in de facto relationships - i.e. they are living with the father of their children but not married to him.
As an unmarried father, with two children, (one of them actually has no mother), I bet you're wrong. If that was even remotely correct, we wouldnt have so many single mothers on welfare.. Or are you suggesting their breaking the law?
Unmarried doesn't necessarily mean single parenthood - it just means not married to the child's father.
I suspect that a very large percentage of those 6 out of 10 are in de facto relationships - i.e. they are living with the father of their children but not married to him.
So you just make up a conclusion that satisfies you and then "move on".
Do you do this with all issues ?
Why not do some research to find out the truth ?
For starters, not all single mothers are without the baby's father. The article makes no mention of that, so we just don't know. Also, how many of these single mothers are actually divorced mothers who married and had children young?
The article seems to talk only about single mothers, but does nothing to talk about the fathers of these children. I would say the best advice would be to push the education with girls when they are in school that the better the eduction they get, and waiting till marriage before having children, as well as teaching them about safe sex would decrease these numbers.
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