The Census Bureau released appalling info about the family
Dec 5, 2021 23:56:12 GMT -5
Post by Berean on Dec 5, 2021 23:56:12 GMT -5
December 5, 2021
The Census Bureau released appalling information about the American family
By Andrea Widburg
The nuclear family has always been the backbone of American liberty and prosperity. However, the latest information from the Census Bureau shows that the nuclear family, if not dead, is on life support. Only the smallest fraction of American children are being raised in traditional two-parent households.
Leftists have been waging relentless war on the nuclear family for decades in ways big and small. The big ways began in the 1960s with women’s liberation and no-fault divorce. While both of those may have relieved women from desperately bad marriages and dead-end jobs, they also served to take women out of their role as homemaker and the child’s primary teacher, often transferring those roles to immigrant women when the children were small and public schools when the children were older.
The welfare state also struck a blow at the nuclear family. Many women will acknowledge that, even if they like or love men, the latter aren’t always easy to live with, a problem that can go far beyond leaving up the toilet seat. Having a regular “paycheck” without the man attached can be a real blessing.
Even worse, welfare is structured so that having a father in the family can depress the woman’s income, and so that, the more children a woman has out of wedlock, the more money she gets. This isn’t money that would sustain the middle-class comforts many of us like but, as I happen to know from acquaintances, not everyone wants the middle-class lifestyle. Many people just want a check that will pay for rudimentary shelter, food, and drugs.
The Pill and abortion also attacked the nuclear family by decoupling sex and marriage. Women could pretend that they could have consequence-free sex and men could definitely have consequence-free sex. Without children binding them together, both men and women have drifted along avoiding adult responsibilities. Men can still grow up in their 50s and start a family; women cannot.
Lately, the primary attacks on the family have come through the LGBTQ revolution, especially the nonsensical claim that people aren’t male or female (sperm and egg; mother and father) but are, instead, endlessly sexually mutable organisms that can change sex—and abandon the biological responsibilities of their sex—as the mood strikes them. In addition, Black Lives Matter made explicit that it seeks to destroy the nuclear family (a claim it deleted when called out upon it).
Continued at link
The Census Bureau released appalling information about the American family
By Andrea Widburg
The nuclear family has always been the backbone of American liberty and prosperity. However, the latest information from the Census Bureau shows that the nuclear family, if not dead, is on life support. Only the smallest fraction of American children are being raised in traditional two-parent households.
Leftists have been waging relentless war on the nuclear family for decades in ways big and small. The big ways began in the 1960s with women’s liberation and no-fault divorce. While both of those may have relieved women from desperately bad marriages and dead-end jobs, they also served to take women out of their role as homemaker and the child’s primary teacher, often transferring those roles to immigrant women when the children were small and public schools when the children were older.
The welfare state also struck a blow at the nuclear family. Many women will acknowledge that, even if they like or love men, the latter aren’t always easy to live with, a problem that can go far beyond leaving up the toilet seat. Having a regular “paycheck” without the man attached can be a real blessing.
Even worse, welfare is structured so that having a father in the family can depress the woman’s income, and so that, the more children a woman has out of wedlock, the more money she gets. This isn’t money that would sustain the middle-class comforts many of us like but, as I happen to know from acquaintances, not everyone wants the middle-class lifestyle. Many people just want a check that will pay for rudimentary shelter, food, and drugs.
The Pill and abortion also attacked the nuclear family by decoupling sex and marriage. Women could pretend that they could have consequence-free sex and men could definitely have consequence-free sex. Without children binding them together, both men and women have drifted along avoiding adult responsibilities. Men can still grow up in their 50s and start a family; women cannot.
Lately, the primary attacks on the family have come through the LGBTQ revolution, especially the nonsensical claim that people aren’t male or female (sperm and egg; mother and father) but are, instead, endlessly sexually mutable organisms that can change sex—and abandon the biological responsibilities of their sex—as the mood strikes them. In addition, Black Lives Matter made explicit that it seeks to destroy the nuclear family (a claim it deleted when called out upon it).
Continued at link