Mister D
02-21-2012, 01:58 PM
I've heard this bologna from several liberals over the years.
The most idiotic reason that single mothers give for not marrying is: “I’m too poor to get married!” Evidently these women believe they’re not too poor to educate, house, feed, clothe, and provide a stable home and an enriching moral and cultural environment for a child on their own. The “I’m too poor” defense, documented by researchers such as Kathryn Edin (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/kathryn-edin), refers not simply to the cost (http://thepoliticalforums.com/#) of a wedding (which of course is avoidable through a City Hall ceremony), but to the day-to-day institution of marriage itself.
Now comes the New York Times validating this facile excuse for non-marriage in a front-page article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=deparle%20unwed%20mothers&st=cse) on the juggernaut of illegitimacy (more than half of children born to women under 30 in 2009 were illegitimate): “Money helps explain why well-educated Americans still marry at high rates: they can offer each other more financial support, and hire others to do chores that prompt conflict.”
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291459/too-poor-marry-heather-mac-donald
The most idiotic reason that single mothers give for not marrying is: “I’m too poor to get married!” Evidently these women believe they’re not too poor to educate, house, feed, clothe, and provide a stable home and an enriching moral and cultural environment for a child on their own. The “I’m too poor” defense, documented by researchers such as Kathryn Edin (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/kathryn-edin), refers not simply to the cost (http://thepoliticalforums.com/#) of a wedding (which of course is avoidable through a City Hall ceremony), but to the day-to-day institution of marriage itself.
Now comes the New York Times validating this facile excuse for non-marriage in a front-page article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=deparle%20unwed%20mothers&st=cse) on the juggernaut of illegitimacy (more than half of children born to women under 30 in 2009 were illegitimate): “Money helps explain why well-educated Americans still marry at high rates: they can offer each other more financial support, and hire others to do chores that prompt conflict.”
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291459/too-poor-marry-heather-mac-donald