[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

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.

[Tax-chick]

It doesn’t take a village to raise a child except in a failed state and no village can afford to hire an entire other village to raise its children. That, among other things, is what is bringing California to its knees.

I've often that, if each woman hires another woman to care for her children, nobody really gains except the tax collector.

[Sans-Culotte]

Bump.

[DuncanWaring]

A nation of single people will inevitably become a welfare state and a police state.

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."

[Responsibility2nd]

Three choices lie ahead.

The Republican Party can fight for the family. It can abandon fiscal conservatism and social conservatism in both word and deed to pursue its real program of trying to make big government work. Or it can look for alternative institutions that can replace both family and government.
 

Well, it seems obvious which option the GOP chose.

[oldbrowser]

There is a correlation between the assent of the government and the reduction in the size of families.

Maybe it is a causation. Why would people want to bring children into this world as it careens toward chaos?

[SMARTY]

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.