Study: Divorce, illegitimate kids costing taxpayers $112 billion.

Associated Press ^ | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | daniel1212

[daniel1212]

NEW YORK - Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing costs U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by groups advocating government action to bolster marriage.

[daniel1212]

Continuing costs of the war against God: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html

[DManA]

It is a cost only because we through our representatives choose to spend it. If we chose differently it could cost us nothing.

[DungeonMaster]

Maybe that’s why “bastard” is sort of a bad word.

[hosepipe]

112 Billion.. I’ll bet it costs far more than that..

[Dante3]

All along studies have shown that illegitimate children test lower on physical and mental health, grades, and a long list of other factors.

[NativeNewYorker]

Clearly we need to raise taxes on those responsible for this.

[applpie]

gee. if i work and pay for it, and raise my kids on my dime....how does my divorce cost the govt anything?

[redreno]

[WakeUpAndVote]

Planned parenthood is making a new marketing strategy as we type. /s

[Pikachu_Dad]

It does cost far more than that. It is going to cost us our Democracy.

Martello v. Martello - 1st circuit Louisiana.

Monthly Gross Income = $9,000/month.

less Temporary Spousal Support = $5,600/month

less Child Support = $2,600/month

leaves $882/month to live on...

Ooops, the Appeals court neglected to deduct taxes.

Estimated Federal, State and FICA is $2,600/month.

At what point do we stop calling it by the names they have given it and call it by its real name?

PEONAGE.

and in this case, attempted murder under color of law.

[Oldexpat]

Since we reward women for having kids out of wedlock..how are we surprised that we are getting more of them and that it costs us a lot of money. Stop granting citizenship to anchor babies, deport mothers who have them now. These kids are time bombs. Most don’t finish school, they are the mainstay of gangs, they fill our prisons. When they are in school they cost more than normal kids..special ed..discipline..lost teacher time.
It has just about killed California. They will end up with a 20B deficite in the next year..and Dumb Arnold tells us not to blame the illegals. I don’t just the stupid policitians who created this disaster.

[NativeNewYorker]

The rhetorical slight of hand is manufacturing implied costs that must be met by raising taxes on decent working folks.

[hosepipe]

[ It is going to cost us our Democracy. ]

Wrong.. it will make this republic a democracy..
Democracy is the SOURCE of socialism..

[MissEdie]

And as long as the welfare-mooching scumbags are allowed to procreate at current rates, the DamRat party knows it has a dependent voter base for the next generation.

[Perdogg]

A cougar tax?

[Orlando]

amen...that's why many, many fathers are killing themselves and/or going insane and killing others.

This war on God, Family, and Fathers will not last long...
I feel now...more than ever before...God is responding to this beast of new Bablyon and there harlots that run this gov’t.

[Onelifetogive]

All along studies have shown that illegitimate children test lower on physical and mental health, grades, and a long list of other factors.

Being illegitimate doesn't make them test lower. Having the genetics of someone who would have an illegitimate kid does...

[Mr. Silverback]

Not an activism thread.

[daniel1212]

While my main concern is the eternal costs of putting off the Lord Jesus to make provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof (contra. Rm. 13:14), the sexual revoltion also costs plenty of money as well:

Excluding HIV, more than $8 billion is spent each year to diagnose and treat STDs and their complications. Institute of Medicine. (1997). Institute of Medicine. (1997). http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_statistics.cfm

The overall cost treating AIDS in the United States was $16 billion in 2002. http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2003/Dec/01-19252.html

06 Nov 2006 NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Schackman , Freedberg, MGH;, Gebo Moore Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and BU School of Public Health).http://porkbusters.org/2007/02/prevent_baby_aids_or_learn_how.php

n 1954 [during the beginning of the “cold war”] defense spending was 70 percent of federal spending while “human resources” was 19 percent. In 2003, defense was 19 percent with human resources accounting for 66 percent. The Next Economy By Robert J. Samuelson Wednesday, December 29, 2004;

Every incident of child sexual abuse costs the victim and society $99,000. Miller, Cohen & Wiersema, 1996. http://www.yellodyno.com/html/childabusestatistics.html

The porn industry rakes in an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion annually in the United States. The $4 billion that Americans spend on video pornography alone is more than the annual revenue of the NFL, the NBA or Major League Baseball. Dillon Fishman Arizona Daily Wildcat http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/133/03_1.html

Between 2/2001 to 7/2001 there was an increase of 345% in child pornography sites (N2H2, 8/01) http://www.afo.net/statistics.htm

Just a few

[daniel1212]

Sorry. first time.