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As reported by flconch, 40% of all births are now born to single mothers. What do you think of this? Is this bad or good?
Very bad because a very large number of those require money confiscated from taxpayers because the mothers don't want to work to support those babies. Octomom is a perfect example.
The other reason is that children really need two parents, it's better for children to have their fathers involved in their lives. Mothers with husbands tend to stay home, bring less strange men into the home, many abusive.
I know some women who want babies but not a husband or boyfriend.
There also may be lesbians who are having children but since the government doesn't recognize same-sex unions....those children are seen as born to unwed mothers...
I however do think that rewarding unwed mothers through the use of WIC, food stamps, free housing, subsidized day care, etc is bad policy.
I think there should be more classes/seminars in high schools about the true cost of raising a child WITHOUT the help of the state/government.
Children need two parents, not just breeders and welfare receipents. Birth control, sterilization or abortions. Yes, abortion. It's much more humane than what happens to unwanted children.
Children need two parents, not just breeders and welfare receipents. Birth control, sterilization or abortions. Yes, abortion. It's much more humane than what happens to unwanted children.
The problem is -- the unwed mothers in most of the cases know perfectly well where babies come from, they aren't having "accidents" and want to have babies out of wedlock. Why not? They can then retire, they figure they can always marry later if they feel like it, the babies bring in more than a minimum wage job.
Just because a couple isn't married when their child is born does not always mean that the baby was an accident, that the couple doesn't live together in a committed relationship, or that they are not planning a future together... just that they are not married. I'm not looking for a marriage debate, but to make "unwed parent" synonymous with "single parent" is quite misleading...
The nuclear family as we know it is an artificial construct. Even within the past century, many people
lived with an extended family that might include grandparents, aunts, uncles, even boarders. There are still some matriarchal societies that we might learn from; the Hispanic practice of putting the mother's maiden name last is a remnant of matriarchy in such societies.
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