According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 1.4 million babies were born to unmarried women in 2004 --doubling the number from 1980. Four years later in 2008, the number has spiked to 1.7 million babies born to unwed women in their 20s and 30s. To put things in perspective, four of every 10 American babies are now born to single mothers.
Experts cite plenty of reasons for the surge, but the war on marriage and the family is the most serious. As more men retreat from responsibility, women are delaying marriage or foregoing it altogether. That's bad news both for children and for Americans hoping for a return to limited government. As American families wither and collapse, Washington is busy promoting postmodern alternatives. The nomenklatura presently in control of government believe that Washington can do a better job of raising children. Instead of policies that strengthen families, the White House wants programs to expand the government's role in them.
Fiscal conservatives have ignored marriage as a policy issue. They fail to realize that it is a vital economic institution that has enormous implications for the role of the federal government. Every year, state and federal governments transfer over $280 billion in welfare, food stamps, and other anti-poverty programs to subsidize "diverse" (read dysfunctional and broken) families. That means that in one decade, the sabotage of marriage has taken $3 trillion out of taxpayers' pockets.
Pervert marriage in New England will provide a roadmap of misery for Maryland. The perverts will upend the traditional paradigm of stable biological families voluntarily assuming the great majority of child and social welfare needs, and provoke an unsustainable wave of state subsidies for the onanist indulgences of irresponsible boomer and x-er sybarites. As the perverts, despite all their frankensteinish technologies, fail to produce a sustainable population of citizens, the demand for tax-subsidized cheap foreign labor will surge. It matters little that many immigrant parents hope to maintain the tribal traditions of the old country, as a public education will ensure that their children learn to despise both traditional American institutions and old world family customs. Defining deviancy down is the path to national suicide.
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