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I just got through watching a segment on FOX News' "Outnumbered" show and the discussion was focusing on out-of-wedlock births in America and the accompanying increasing financial costs of that in welfare payments. The panel was debating the reasons for the rise in out-of-wedlock births. For the record, out-of-wedlock births total some 40% across the board and is just over 70% for black women.
Latest Statistics on Out-of-Wedlock Births | National Review Online
For five minutes they went on and on and not one of them ever made a single allusion to the decline of spirituality and the exodus away from God and his moral laws. Black FOX News anchor Harris Faulkner was prominent in the discussion.
Taking the highest figure - 72% for black women - is especially curious and disheartening since the overwhelming religious preference for blacks is Christianity. One might well argue they (and many non-blacks) don't practice what they believe - that fornication is a sin and that no (unrepentant) fornicators will enter the Kingdom of Heaven (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
Many blacks, in particular Bill Cosby, have spoken out on the problems and in a number of cases have been attacked for their views. In churches Black, White, and Hispanic, preachers have also addressed the issue, though some have become politically correct to the point they ignore Biblical admonitions against shack up unions, fornication, and gay marriages.
Although there are other reasons as well for all this, I think there's no doubt that there's a spiritual decline in America. And it certainly doesn't appear to look to be in America's best interests.
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I saw some goofy television program this morning with a black man re-uniting with six children by four different moms. He had another three who chose not to be on the show. (Only ones with sense, in my opinion.) He was repenting...now that they were grown. Now I don't know how these four different moms supported their families alone...most of the six had multiple siblings...but I know how I THINK they supported them. With government assistance.
Having a family member in the Chicago Public Schools system, she tells us that having a baby is a job objective for most of her girl students. Not getting married. Not even living with the father of the child. These babies are the key to valuable benefits for them. Free education. Free child care. I'm not even sure what all they are, but I know they are plentiful. We don't let unsupported babies starve. And we don't let their moms starve either.
As long as the government incentivizes out-of-wedlock babies and deadbeat dads, the problem will only get worse.
Bring on the accusations of racism. I can take it.
while that would certainly helpWanna decrease the amount of out of wedlock children? Preach safe sex in schools, on demand access to birth control, condoms, morning after pill, and make abortions more easier to obtain. Bam.
"The ending of the American way of life must be gradual in order for us to succeed. We will start with the school curriculums, we will proceed to crush the family structure, then reduce the God entity top the point of ridicule, introduce and legalize alternate lifestyles and legalize drugs and limit the diet to most unhealthy fatty foods thereby decreasing the ability to quickly raise a standing army".
Wanna decrease the amount of out of wedlock children? Preach safe sex in schools, on demand access to birth control, condoms, morning after pill, and make abortions more easier to obtain. Bam.
"Out of wedlock pregnancy" is not the same as a child being born outside of a functioning family.
A modern era family doesnt need married parents.
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Having a family member in the Chicago Public Schools system, she tells us that having a baby is a job objective for most of her girl students. Not getting married. Not even living with the father of the child. These babies are the key to valuable benefits for them. Free education. Free child care. I'm not even sure what all they are, but I know they are plentiful. We don't let unsupported babies starve. And we don't let their moms starve either.
As long as the government incentivizes out-of-wedlock babies and deadbeat dads, the problem will only get worse.
Bring on the accusations of racism. I can take it.
“America has turned its back on God. It mocks God. Instead it worships a twentieth century Baal, incarnated in sensuality, materialism, and immorality of every kind.” - Carl Henry
If African Americans were freed from religion, it would be the best thing ever to happen to them since the abolition of slavery.
Actually, if they followed basic Christian principles instead of throwing them under the bus, they'd be better off.
Actually, if they followed basic Christian principles instead of throwing them under the bus, they'd be better off.
Well it's no longer scandalous to have a kid out of wedlock, but other than that i'm not sure how things are easier for the family.
It's probably easier for one parent to up and 'escape' the situation and move far away, leaving the kids with single parent, often before birth.
Being pregnant out of wedlock also indicates they're getting pregnant at younger age and before financially stable. That's hardly ideal
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Baal is a god of the ancient levant who was worshiped by the ancient asyrians, phoenicians and cartheginians.
Are you serious? Up until the early 1980s it was even illigal in Switzerland to have a child out of wedlock and until the 1970s women who had become pregnant out of wedlock in Switzerland were forced to have an abortion and "repeat offenders" were even forcefully steralised. Having a child out of wedlock has meant being the subject of horrible social stigma and social isolation for a long time. Not because people thought it was bad for the child, but because of ideals on social norm.
Having a child out of wedlock today does not come with the amount of social stigma that it use to - easier on both child and parents.
I know a couple that has been together for more than 40 years and has 3 children, the youngest of which is 21, the oldest 27, and neither of the parents are married. In fact I know several of such couples, including my parents, who could only get a civil union because they were of different religions.
Not being married but being in a releationship simply has to do with the couples attitude towards marriage, or due to the different confessions of the couple.
I myself, think it is a pompus and rather pointless waste of money. If she insited I would agree to it, but I do not see the point of somehow affirming my releationship through some festivity, which is essentialy nothing but showing off. A friend of mine who got married justified it by just saying "I was princess for a day", which makes it sound even more pathetic.
And I really dont see how this suposedly benefits a child in any way. A married couple can be just as horrible parents, as an unmarried couple.
That's what i said...it's no longer scandalous, at least in most families. Now of course, in US you still have some parents who will disown their daughter for getting pregnant if she won't marry but it's less common.
Things work differently here. Black couples in US are disproportionately religious and would not have kids out of wedlock by total choice. It's a variety of pressures that leads to that situation, like poverty, no birth control or abortion access, rape, wanting to collect child support. Look at that graph. I don't know if totally accurate but 30% white out of wedlock births vs 70% black...
Yes a married couple can suck as parents. But the dad running out, as so many black fathers do, even before birth to avoid paying child support or the responsibility, means *one* parent. If they were married it might be more difficult to do that or at least it would mean higher odds the couple is financially stable (many wait until they have career to marry cause it's seen as a big permanent commitment). So to see 70%+ out of wedlock births among a more religious racial group doesn't bode well for them.
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