Posted on 08/13/2013 6:38:01 PM PDT by ClaytonP
Lots of Sandra Fluke-types out there now, so why risk financial ruin, when it’s all “FREE”?
Why get married? By not getting married you avoid some of life’s greatest hurdles like responsibility and commitment. Most churches no longer teach that marriage is the ultimate goal of male and female partners. Schools emphasize alternate lifestyles such as homosexuality and life partners (shacking up).
Marriage as it was known 50 years ago is a thing of the past.
The malaise we are suffering economically is a result of the disastrous policies of obama and our aging population. For those that aren't thinking, our population is aging because we have better health care and we are not having babies.
My wife went to law school with a bunch of women and most only had 1 child, or none. When they've had some wine they will admit they regret they didn't have any, or more than one.
There is a train of thought that says it is the lib’s that are in decline due to the birth rate and that we might even duck the bullet of being a minority party (immigration)because of it.
A lot of it has to do with career. They make it pretty difficult to have a family and work. I think we would have more woman getting married if they had a more family friendly work situation. Nope as a conservative, I would not want them giving more freebies to woman, but this is one of the reasons why woman are not getting married and having children. For example, if you are a teacher and you and your husband decide to have a baby and take a year or two off, good luck getting another teaching job. It is way to risky to take any time off from work for taking care of a baby. Obviously I am talking more about having families then strictly getting married because many single woman seem to have babies, but most of those are in the either very poor or very rich.
Couple this with the encouragement of women to be "independent", thinking somehow this will make them "whole", is a fallacy and solely intended to destroy a nuclear family, as evindenced by the new term "single mother", where we used to use terms such as "divorcee, slut, tramp, easy-lay, etc."
This is actually accepted by quite a number of thinkers on the right.
The liberals have the demographic advantage in the short term, but it will shift the other way in the second half of this century.
We won't live to see it however and if they get total power alot of permanent damage can be done.
You are correct on all counts. It is awful how much money is given to taxes, health care, retirement, Social Security, etc. You pretty much have a very small amount left no matter how much you make. That is why I laugh so hard at those dummies who want 15 dollars an hour working at McDonald’s. They will be LUCKY to break even than what they receive now after all the HIGHER deductions are taken out.
And those career women who did have one child? A lot of them likely had a child with mental and emotional deficits (e.g. autism) -- due to having delayed childbearing until they were past the optimal age.
At some point, women are going to realize that their feminist fantasy indoctrination is not the way life really works -- at least not the Sex and the City scenario of women having "fun" + career, and waiting until their mid-30s to try to find a decent man to settle down with and have children.
I think we would have more woman getting married if they had a more family friendly work situation.”
Don’t necessarily agree. Women of my generation worked full-time and often in supervisory or management positions, kept the house, did the laundry and ironing, cooked breakfast and dinner, packed lunches, made a lot of clothes for everyone, had babies and were good mothers. Of course we had our babies when we were young, had more energy and were more flexible and less demanding, unlike women today.
We had unpaid maternity leave when the boss decided it was time and returned six weeks after the baby was born.
Not sure exactly what it means by women having it all. I don’t think I missed out on anything in my career, with my spouse or with my children. I can guarantee you I never sat around in the evening reading, watching TV or having a leisurely glass of wine. But by having children when you’re in your early or mid 20’s, you have a whole lot of life left after they are grown and gone.
Don't!
Liberals are importing their replacement voters, in the form of masses of government-dependent illegal immigrants ... they aren't legal voters now, but they will be soon.
A big part of it is that women can get as much from a paycheck from the government either through disability (PTSD is a big one), or from having a child and being a single mom. Getting off the dole often results in a loss of benefits, plus (to many others), the loss of freedom that comes from getting your own check, vs relying on your husband to provide.
It’s not even break even that’s the deal, there is a premium being put on getting your crazy check because it means not having someone else in your life telling you what to do, etc.
It’s a terribly lonely way to go. I wish, as a man, that I knew the answer but the answer doesn’t seem to be “ask them to marry you”. So I’m stumped.
I blame the wimpy white men this country has produced so many of....easier to j**k *ff to an inanimate picture than to actually go out and woo a girl....
the playboy philosophy...you don't really need a female to have sex, you just need to have a picture of one....
pathetic....
I could find 10 nice, willing, attractive and available females right just at my workplace who would love to find a nice guy and settle down....but they're not boobistic....
pardon me, but just WHEN do men and husbands take any responsibility for NOT having more children?....just when....
and why is it women have to “stop being so picky” but nothing about men being so “picky”....honestly, men think the playboy centerfolds are regular girls....while in actuality, its puffed up pastry....
It doesn't matter what they look like, they are all family court and child support liabilities.
Women don't give a damn about the injustice being done to men in the family courts.
As a result more and more men don't give a damn if women end up as old cat ladys.
Some did have some problems. Also, they tend to pamper their "perfect" children.
At some point, women are going to realize that their feminist fantasy indoctrination is not the way life really works -- at least not the Sex and the City scenario of women having "fun" + career, and waiting until their mid-30s to try to find a decent man to settle down with and have children.
I'm not so sure. I live in a liberal city. One thing I've noticed is no matter how many rational arguments you make they refuse to see the truth threw their emotional self-righteous fog.
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