“Look at President Clinton...” His father was killed in a car accident... I’m sure it happens every day, esp. to women whose husbands are in the military or cops...”
To speed along acceptance of “single motherhood,” the left has successfully conflated them with “widows.” Widows and single mothers have NOTHING in common.
Study after study shows (see Ann Coulter’s “Demonic”) that the children of widows do just as well as those from two-parent families: they finish school, they don’t go to prison, and they get married themselves to raise children.
You can’t say any of those things about the poor bastards (and I mean that literally) raised by unmarried women. They don’t have a chance in life.
Yes, you are right of course, windows are different from never-married mothers.
However, to stick with Clinton, his mother re-married and although he took his step-father’s surname (which I think REALLY helped him in life because I don’t think William Blythe would have been elected president, in the 19th cen. maybe, but probably not in 1992) my impression is that it was a less than happy family situation for him.
But I’ve always given Clinton credit for being a hard worker and he overcame whatever struggles he had in life and did get elected AG, GOV and POTUS, not to shabby esp. for such a really shabby guy.
Had he never lived at all he would have done none of these things.
Now, I’m sorry Clinton ended up our President, but to go back to the hypothetical for a moment, it was good, at least for him, that he was born.
This is my problem with, I don’t know what to call it, let’s call it post-feminist child-bearing. There is a lot of pressure that you shouldn’t have a child unless the child and his/her life is going to be pretty close to perfect.
Of course this idea infests the upper and middle classes only, the poor don’t dwell on such concepts. Thus we have far more poor people bearing children than middle or upper class people.
I’m off topic now, so I’ll stop before I wander even further afield.
Mothers and fathers who have children out of wedlock lose the respect of their children. Children cannot have a sense of morality if the parents did not show them a good example. It is hard enough to raise children when married but when there is not the basis of respect, it is very difficult.