When one looks at American society today, it is clear that it is single mothers who are the most victimized group in America.
Single mothers exist in such large numbers because the concept of being married before having children has long been played down as an ethical and moral standard.
Conservatives, Republicans and highly devout Christians and Jews also preach that every time a fetus is conceived, the mother should carry through to term, which often leads to poverty and deprivation for the child and the mother.
Of course, also there are women who are abandoned by their boyfriends or their husbands, or are divorced or widowed, leaving them with the total task of bringing up their children.
And statistics show the following realities:
Single mothers have triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population.
One fourth of all mothers are single women at one time or another.
Half of all children will spend some time in a single mother household.
Single mothers have the highest rate of low wage employment.
Single mothers have the highest wage gap.
Single mothers have the lowest net worth and the highest chance for bankruptcy.
Half of all households since the year 2000 are led by a single mother.as the breadwinner.
All this is reality as conservatives and Republicans look to do the following:
Slash welfare programs; cut enforcement of child support; limit child tax credits; work against protection of women from sexual and emotional abuse; and overall, blame single mothers for all the wrongs of society!
So, in other words, make sure you have all pregnancies go to term, but do not expect government to assist in making life easier for single mothers, god forbid! And do not promote birth control, as that is against the natural order of things, interfering with God’s Plan!
Expect single mothers to pay child care costs, clothing costs for work, transportation costs to get to and from work, and blame them when their children may turn out to have lack of supervision, which may lead to membership in gangs and other socially unacceptable activities, which may lead to crime!
And of course, single mothers are often subject to violence and abuse themselves, as there is no sense of honor or respect for the amazing job that 99 percent of these single women of any race accomplish, despite an anti women attitude by so many politicians and conservative ideologists!
Until this major social ill is confronted and dealt with through compassion and reaching out, the plight of single mothers and their children will continue to be a serious crisis in America’s future!
So after decades of efforts from the cultural left to destroy the traditional marriage, family and relax basic moral and ethical standards, we now see the results. As you very well acknowledge “the concept of being married before having children has long been played down as an ethical and moral standard.” Played down by who I ask? The concept of family based on marriage has pretty much destroyed by years of cultural war from the left. We now seem to have this moral relativism where everything is the same. The cultural rot and decay has overtaken much of society. And yet, you say single mothers are victims, but victims of what really? I don’t see them so much as victim of their circumstances and choices but victims of the cultural rot in which they have been brought up in, which is based on the lack of personal responsibility. This makes husbands and boyfriends abandon their children and makes them, the women, make unwise decisions. Why? Because of the loss of a moral compass, moral compass that was replaced by moral relativism and of course of entitlement mentality. Thus this is where we are after 4/5 decades, in a situation where those who proposed such “changes” and “modernization” of moral values are not affected whatsoever by what they promoted. While young women who were brought up in this cultural rot end up being the real victims because no one taught them any better. And sadly no one will teach them any better because it is just to “old fashion” and “fascist” to promote family values or any morality whatsoever. We are now living the utopian future that the cultural left and its moral relativists envisioned. Do you like it?
Juan, of course I do not like it, and am still shocked when people broadcast that they have a baby with their boyfriend, not their husband. In that way, I am very “old fashioned”.
But to blame this on the “cultural left”, rather than on the promotion of economic inequality since the coming to power of Ronald Reagan is missing the point. The fact that one percent of the nation has 40 percent of the wealth, and does not give a damn about what happens to these women and children (what I call the Mitt Romney syndrome of dismissal and arrogance), and also the fact that the four Walmart heirs have more than the bottom 60 percent of the nation in total assets, and treat their workers, heavily female, with disdain and without respect, or consideration of giving health benefits, and let the government do it instead, is totally outrageous! This is the real source of the victimization of single mothers, who somehow, in most cases, do a heroine’s job despite being slapped down constantly at work, but who must face conservatives who claim to be “religious” but have no concern, and would rather give more tax breaks to corporations and the top two percent, a la Paul Ryan!
Oh Ron, you always seem to be putting the buggy in front of the horses…
Progressives, the architects of the single mother explosion and million of murdered waiting to be born babies are the worst enemies of American society . They refuse to admit understanding, like the good citizens of post war Germany.
Dave, again you can say what you believe, but I totally disagree in the comparison to Nazi Germany. It makes you sound really “off the wall”, sorry to say!
As I said, as the Germans refused to understand, so do Progressives, not sorry to say.
Your comparison is RIDICULOUS! And do you propose that all those children which have been born to single mothers should be abandoned by us, when the moms cannot support them adequately? That it is NOT our job to take care of their needs when the mom cannot do so?