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Family is to key to civilization. The failure to commit to family is the failure to accept responsibility for oneself and one's community. Tough love teaches the vital importance of insisting upon marriage and parenthood. There is no honor in remaining single and isolated for a lifetime.
I've often that, if each woman hires another woman to care for her children, nobody really gains except the tax collector.
Bump.
From Rudyard Kipling, a century ago:
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
“There is no honor in remaining single and isolated for a lifetime.”
Not everyone is the marrying kind, so I wouldn’t generalize on that one.
There is no marrying kind.
There is no marrying kind.
Well, it seems obvious which option the GOP chose.
+1
“There is no marrying kind”
Everyone is different. Some are not cut out for long-term relationships.
Maybe it is a causation. Why would people want to bring children into this world as it careens toward chaos?
Cut them in. Everyone is made for long term relationships.
Standards are set - love is given - but there's a point where the ‘brother-in-law who won't look for work - or the out of control adult daughter - are told to straighten up or leave. Families socialize each other, forgive each other, don't forgive, try again, and HAVE STANDARDS.
Liberal elites hate it, but it works. We need to mimic a healthy family.,
Liberals don't want to think of the ‘deserving poor - or the 'undeserving poor’... but that separation's a bedrock of a healthy civilization. Liberals have created a system of ‘it's all good’ or ‘you're in jail’... There has to be gradations.
Helping a widow who has followed the rules her whole life - has to be treated differently than assistance given to drug addicted gang bangers. Different offices - different staff - different help. If Republicans set that up - with all positive incentives - it would assist keeping families together. It also allows the innocent single person to maintain their conservative position in the world....
Actually.. No. I’ve known many decent people in my life who, for varied reasons, choose to be single. They’re just as giving of themselves as anyone. Painting all long-term single people with a broad brushstroke is wrong.
Liberals want it both ways and that won’t fly.
They want to tear down the family and the system of ethics, which goes along with it and includes a respect for and perpetuation of the WORK ETHIC.
How can Liberals consider replacing the family with the state if the family is no longer there to assure that individuals comprehend and accept the concept of work and personal responsibility?
At some point, there will no longer be anyone who gives a squat about working and paying taxes.
Liberals have a schizophrenic plan here.
I do not agree, anecdotal experience notwithstanding. Marriage is a contract with the community and the culture. It is much more than a relationship between a man and aa woman.
But it starts with a relationship between a man and a woman, no matter what the overall implications. And I disagree with your contention that those who are long-term single are so because of selfishness. Every situation is different.
I never used the word selfishness nor have I insinuated it. My position is simple and clear. Man is meant for woman and woman for man. They are inextricably linked. The nature of relationships is virtually infinite but the foundation for relationships is born in the nature of humanity. There is no natural state of permanent onogamy. There is not even an adequate word for such a condition.
By what authority are you impugning those who won’t commit to family as failing to accept responsibility for oneself and one’s community? I find it rather high-handed you imply that a single person is somehow not a full member of a functioning society.
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