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2009-05-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

Unwed Mom Boom Threatens Sanctity of Gay Marriage

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Posted by Besoeker 2009-05-17 08:45|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 Well I assumed either The Onion or Scrappleface

Posted by Cheaderhead 2009-05-17 10:12|| 2009-05-17 10:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The unwed mom boom also raises another unfortunate by-product: child abuse. What movies that glamorize the single mom lifestyle leave out is that the child's mental health is what suffers, oftentimes well into adulthood. A study conducted in New Zealand showed an exponential increase of many disorders among offspring from single parent homes.

Single parenthood increases stress, financial difficulties, time management issues and all of these difficulties don't occur in a vacuum, but instead occur in the absence of a meaningful support system.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-17 11:25|| 2009-05-17 11:25|| Front Page Top

#3 "all of these difficulties don't occur in a vacuum, but instead occur ~~in the absence of a meaningful support system~~ directly throught the self-centered choice of the mother"

Fixed that for ya', GT.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-17 11:54|| 2009-05-17 11:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, Barbara, self- centered wouldn't even begin to cover all the things wrong with it. Spot on.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-17 11:59|| 2009-05-17 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Black single Moms give birth at twice the White rate, and Hispanic solo mothers bear babies at triple the rate.

Is this some sort of sudden realization? This has been the case for a long time now.

Posted by Clem Elmuter8826 2009-05-17 12:44|| 2009-05-17 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 No revelations here. If society confronted single moms more often about their dubious assumption that everyone thinks its cute when they become single moms, maybe it would inspire women stop thinking its glamourous or a last ditch way to be a mom if a dad doesn't materialize.

Octomom being an obvious one to start with.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-17 13:20|| 2009-05-17 13:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Black single Moms give birth at twice the White rate, and Hispanic solo mothers bear babies at triple the rate.

That's a Scrappleface stat. The real stats:
40% Total
17% Asian
28% White
51% Latino
65% Indian
72% Black

Posted by ed 2009-05-17 13:34|| 2009-05-17 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 If my memory serves me correctly, history only provides the details of one "immaculate conception." Mandetory DNA testing at birth and strict financial accountability of the father/impregnator/worthless kak voël might help a damn site more that anything else. Just my umble opinion as a father, offspring care and feeder, college fund provider, taxpayer, etc.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-05-17 13:42|| 2009-05-17 13:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Take away the welfare and garnish the wages of the deadbeat dads. Nobody wants to remove the support system for the single moms and their babies but, let's face, if we don't we're just encouraging more of the same. They know they can get away with it so they do.

My liberal brother in law is astounded by my attitude on this subject. He says, "You mean you wouldn't let those girls get an abortion but you would let their babies starve?"

Yeah. Call it tough love. Call it I don't want the blood on my hands but I don't want to pay for it either. And, yes, it is a threat to our society. It costs the taxpayers a helluva lot of money and it is not healthy for the kids which is not healthy for society.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-05-17 15:10|| 2009-05-17 15:10|| Front Page Top

#10 BRAVO, Abu Uluque

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-05-17 17:02|| 2009-05-17 17:02|| Front Page Top

#11 you can still work to pay for your out-of-wedlock-and-unsupported offspring if you're a eunuch....just saying

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-05-17 17:05|| 2009-05-17 17:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Whahahhaaha Frank. Euuuuwnuch...#&#&#!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-05-17 17:09|| 2009-05-17 17:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I say spay and neuter, snip snip, we are America, land of the free to breed, but that can be remedied! Under Obama's health care ambitions, I wouldn't be suprised if it did.

A lot of these single parent kids become our military early 17 year old enlistees, or end up in prison and then end up in the military on prison release programs.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-17 17:22|| 2009-05-17 17:22|| Front Page Top

#14 'DOGMA' LOL! Gotta love Scott Ott.

Posted by Zorba 2009-05-17 18:12|| 2009-05-17 18:12|| Front Page Top

#15 or end up in prison and then end up in the military on prison release programs.

Got stats on that GT? or did you forget the /sarc line? Number of waivers is small to overall numbers and generally on things that have been criminalized in the last decade or so [like DWI].

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-17 18:44|| 2009-05-17 18:44|| Front Page Top

#16 No sarcasm intended. I was enlisted. Two of my neighbors whom I spoke with daily went from a jail-cell into the Army in a matter of weeks. I would not joke about something as serious as that. And they were admirable for their efforts and great success at being rehabilitated.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-17 18:54|| 2009-05-17 18:54|| Front Page Top

#17 A lot of these single parent kids become our military early 17 year old enlistees

Hmmm, kids looking for a little order and structure in their lives they are not getting from Single Mom?

or end up in prison and then end up in the military on prison release programs.

Kids *needing* a little order and structure in their lives they are not getting from Single Mom?

Posted by SteveS 2009-05-17 19:32|| 2009-05-17 19:32|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm surprised no one else mentioned a bizarre little belief that I've heard quite a few times.

"Yeah, we're having a kid, but we're not getting married....we're not ready for that kind of commitment..."

I don't know how many stupid pills instead of birth control pills you gotta take to believe that BS, but there's a lot of girls and guys takin' 'em.....

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-17 23:12|| 2009-05-17 23:12|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm surprised no one else mentioned a bizarre little belief that I've heard quite a few times.

"Yeah, we're having a kid, but we're not getting married....we're not ready for that kind of commitment..."

I don't know how many stupid pills instead of birth control pills you gotta take to believe that BS, but there's a lot of girls and guys takin' 'em.....

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-17 23:13|| 2009-05-17 23:13|| Front Page Top

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