U.S. out-of-wedlock births top 40%
More than 40 per cent of American children are now born out of wedlock.
The same explosion of out-of-wedlock births is evident all over the Western world. Interestingly- and contrary to some claims- this is not the case world-wide. In Japan, for example, only two percent of children are born out of wedlock.
The increased acceptance of unmarried co-habitation- an arrangement which, despite the publicity given to a single (but disproportionately publicized) study- which, contradicts multiple studies done all over the world over a period of many years (and contrary to the customary rationalization) not only decreases the odds that a couple will ever marry, but drastically increases the chance that the couple, if it eventually marries, will divorce- has led to an increasing social acceptance of childbearing by unmarried women in the United States. Tragically, children born under such conditions- and their mothers- are almost invariably doomed to lives of extreme poverty and privation.
Incredibly, the answer offered by many on the social Left to irresponsible sexual behavior is abortion. But wouldn't people of both genders taking responsiblity for their own behavior be a better option?
Not likely, though, in a society in which sexual mores are such that one in five adults have genital herpes.
Sadly, the ship of responsible sexuality has likely sailed in the U.S., and likely in the rest of the West as well.
The same explosion of out-of-wedlock births is evident all over the Western world. Interestingly- and contrary to some claims- this is not the case world-wide. In Japan, for example, only two percent of children are born out of wedlock.
The increased acceptance of unmarried co-habitation- an arrangement which, despite the publicity given to a single (but disproportionately publicized) study- which, contradicts multiple studies done all over the world over a period of many years (and contrary to the customary rationalization) not only decreases the odds that a couple will ever marry, but drastically increases the chance that the couple, if it eventually marries, will divorce- has led to an increasing social acceptance of childbearing by unmarried women in the United States. Tragically, children born under such conditions- and their mothers- are almost invariably doomed to lives of extreme poverty and privation.
Incredibly, the answer offered by many on the social Left to irresponsible sexual behavior is abortion. But wouldn't people of both genders taking responsiblity for their own behavior be a better option?
Not likely, though, in a society in which sexual mores are such that one in five adults have genital herpes.
Sadly, the ship of responsible sexuality has likely sailed in the U.S., and likely in the rest of the West as well.
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