Single Mom's are making us broke--column. (statistics, support, percent, welfare)
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But once again, the discussion is about making us broke. The only way their unmarried, but co-habitating, and then responsible for making us broke, is if they are BREAKING THE LAW, or the father is so completely incompetent and unwilling to go earn a living wage.
Again, the sentence:
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that more than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried.
is not the same as saying that they are all on benefits.
I agree. 16-17 are not out looking for welfare checks. They are not thinking that far in advance and that was NOT the reason they got pregnant to begin with.
As far as "a blessing from Jaysus" culture ? I really don't know.
I do. I have someone like that in my family. She was raised in that "baby culture" and now her daughter, who is once-divorced, is having kid #2 before she is married to guy #2 and she cannot handle kid #1. In that family, if you are a woman, you have kids. This is a fairly common mindset in much of the rural Midwest and I would bet my bottom dollar it's even stronger in most of the rural South. This is far from being just an urban problem.
Show me a fervently religious culture and I will show you one that treats women as serial breeders. The key is to advancing any civilization is breaking that mold for women.
I agree. 16-17 are not out looking for welfare checks. They are not thinking that far in advance and that was NOT the reason they got pregnant to begin with.
As far as "a blessing from Jaysus" culture ? I really don't know. My town is not that religious. I don't go to church and in the 3 years I've been here no one asked "What Church do you go to ?" But I have been in towns where that is the first question out of their mouths.
Yeh, but people like Rick Santorum are influenced and pander to these minorities. So the fact is that politics is influenced by this kind of thinking on the national scale.
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.
Whether or not they live with the father doesn't make their chances any better at succeeding in America.
These are not college educated unmarried couples here making a combined $80-90K per year.
More than likely these are min wage HS graduates (if they are lucky).
From the OP link:
The U.S. Census Bureau report said that women with college degrees and higher household incomes are less likely to be single mothers than are women who have lower incomes and less education.
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But when more than 600 out of every 1,000 children born to women in their early 20s have single mothers, can anybody come up with a percentage for how many of them will flourish?
is not the same as saying that they are all on benefits.
Many are working.
Many are indeed working. I would bet most of the are unhappy and, if they could, would not choose to have that child when they did. They need to be able to abort or have sound birth control as teenagers and they need to be taught that having kids when you are a teenager or your early twenties is not a good idea and it will have deleterious effects on your life. Also, women with goals and a reasonable expectation that they can achieve them will be far, far less likely to hook up with the types of loser men who leave them holding the kids.
Why are you assuming that co-habitating couples are collecting benefits?
I am not assuming. I know of it. A women who has a baby out of wedlock, she and the baby and the boyfriend live with the daughters mother.
I also know of another case where the mother (an alcoholic) and a grown son (always in trouble) and his girlfriend all co-habitate together and each collect welfare.
is not the same as saying that they are all on benefits.
Many are working.
How are those not collecting benefits, making us broke?
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