men don’t want to be married to feminists (ie other men without penises). We don’t want another CAPTAIN to butt heads against. We don’t want someone who believes they deserve the very best of everything just because they are a woman and it’s a man’s obligation to give that to them. We don’t want someone who never really loved us only to divorce us if the gravy train slows down or stops, or we get injured and need help, and takes our kids and half our stuff.
This is the world being molded today by the liberals in charge of many of our institutions, some of our churches and some of our families.
Gosh, it almost seems like it was DESIGNED to be the best way to raise children. Amazing, huh?
Endemic poverty in a modern economy has two primary markers: broken families and substance abuse. And those two are pretty closely related to one another too.
I can't imagine her having to look after him on her own and earn money at the same time. Even looking after a kid requires two people. It's difficult
“No one advocating the role of marriage in poverty and income inequality, to my knowledge, is calling it a panacea.”
It’s pretty darned close to one.
“There are many other factors in this multifaceted problem—poor schools, a lack of jobs, and so on. But to ignore the pivotal role of marriage, or the lack thereof,...”
And each of these ties back to the breakdown of the married nuclear family as the basic social unit in society.
“...is to deny reality and to preclude finding meaningful solutions.”
Marriage, broadly speaking, is the solution.
Chastity and continence before marriage. Education (at least finish high school). THEN marriage. THEN children.
Folks who do it in that order AND STICK WITH IT nearly always prosper.
Another genius stating the obvious—for the thousandth time this month, it seems. Fleischer included.
Restating and repeating the statistics is like beating someone over the head.
Use your own head and come up with something helpful, like the Post columnist who pointed out that the Wedding has become the focus, rather than the Marriage. Poor women know they can’t afford the Vera Wang dress and the reception at The Princess Court, so they figure the dickens with it, I can’t get married.
OK, that’s one small part of the problem: we glorify the Queen for a Day aspect of the wedding. But at least she was thinking, and pointing out something interesting that hasn’t been worked to death by op-ed writers and editorial writers who love feeling superior to the poor—and just may help a bit to see what can make things better.
” why some Americans prosper and others don’t,”
Avoid Drugs
Avoid promiscuous sex
Avoid kids out of wedlock
Avoid debt if you can
Avoid committing crimes
Avoid making the same relationship mistakes