[ClearCase_guy]

1) Stay in school
2) Get married before you have kids
3) Get a job. Any job.

You will most likely not be poor. Deviate from any of these 3 points, and you are on the path to poverty.

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[Dan(9698)]

My Wife was out of High School 2 weeks when we married in 1962.

We raised 7 kids that are raising their kids.

We all make choices, and are affected by the choices we make.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I work with someone who has been in a relationship with a woman for many years. They have a child together and live together but won’t marry because of all the benefits he would have to pay for if they did.

[Dan(9698)]

My Wife was out of High School 2 weeks when we married in 1962.

We raised 7 kids that are raising their kids.

We all make choices, and are affected by the choices we make.

[shibumi]

Here’s something you should read before posting any more excerpts of your own work.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2882227/posts

(That “Jim” guy - he owns the place.)

[MarkL]

This couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that the government has been functioning as a "replacement" for fathers in families, discouraging marriage and actually providing financial incentives, not only for having children out of wedlock, but additional incentives to have more children.

Consequently the women who are on welfare and other forms of government support tend to be unmarried.

But given the source (NY Slimes) it's understandable they get this sort of thing bass-ackwards.

Mark

[vladimir998]

So, I read the NYT article. Dopey young woman leaved her very white, rural hometown, goes off to college, and gets knocked up by “her boyfriend, an African-American student from Arkansas, said they should start a family.”

Gee, he later abandoned the woman and the three kids. He pays no child support. I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!