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Re: Feminism ended Marriage/Family
I came to this very interesting post thread a few days late, by way of Blue Skies by way of another Responder to both Blue Skies and MichaelBernard1 on the Iraq War exegesis as to ''how we got here.'' While I sympathize with this female academician and her illustrations greatly, based on her point of view, I have to either disagree or comment ...
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MichaelBernard1
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March 31, 2008
marriage does not guarantee success
I take issue with the idea that ''out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe''. I believe the national catastrophe is a lack of accountability. I think that single parents raising childred without the support of the absent parent should be looked at as ''deadbeat parents are a national catastrophe''. The parents remaining with the ...
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jylmama
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March 22, 2008
give it up - after you've already given it up
okay fine... you got knocked up because you were irresponsible (thats the cold truth - like it or not) instead of raising a child in a home that is unstable and offers little hope for the childs future success why not give the child up for adoption to MARRIED couples with STABLE homes. be adult enough (after the fact) that you cant take care of ...
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marriedwithoutchildren
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March 22, 2008
Re: How often does this happen
all i can say is you're paying a high price for not using a condom. you can not rely on anyone else for something that will impact YOUR future so now the child's future is also in peril by being raised in a single parent home. it's a lose-lose situation
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marriedwithoutchildren
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March 22, 2008
Why not just discourage having kids instead?
Marriage won't save children. And I'm offended that every discussion of human welfare is based on what economic class one ends up in. Do we all really have to buy into that? Having worked with kids for 20 years, having been one, having had them--having lived with divorce--both as a child and as a parent I provide this opinion: Until we ...
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GarnerinLA
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March 21, 2008
Sex outside of Marriage & Man's Arrogance
I commend Ms Yoffe for tackling a daunting, yet ignored societal crisis. The effects of this crisis are most evident in the social services offices, public schools, juvenile detention centers of America. If one has never visited or taken part there in, one can watch The Wire, Season 4, to get a fictional, yet poignant and masterful portrayal of ...
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Usama2
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March 20, 2008
Unwed Mothers
The only real pearls of wisdom that I could cull from this article was that marriage before parenthood fosters the deliberation process in couples that serves both them and their children well. We as single women need to deliberately improve our own communication with casual and committed sexual partners about contraception in order to prevent ...
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mb325
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March 20, 2008