The
breakdown of the family may be the largest public health crisis that we face. So
what's driving it? Well there are many factors, such as falling wages for
males. Studies show that when men make less than women, they are considered less attractive
marriage partners, therefore, fewer men
marry and more children are born out of wedlock.
Moreover, some government policies discourage marriage particularly among the poor women on welfare who when they marry often see their food and housing subsidies cut dramatically.
When
a recent report found that almost 1/3 of Americans know someone who hasn't married
for fear of losing benefits. Broader
changes in American culture have also had an effect on marriage and family
formation. The dramatic decline in church attendance and religious observance
is one of these. Another reason for the
decline of the family, and we tend not to think of this as a problem but it certainly
is -- how rarely that it is acknowledged in public. When was the last time
you've heard a democratic office holder decry the out-of-wedlock birth rate? If
you cared about reducing poverty you would talk about it a lot, right? But they don't.
And
check this. Exit polls reveal that
unmarried mothers are a critical part of the Democratic
coalition in 2008. Barack Obama won 74 percent of single mothers who
voted in 2012. He won 75 percent of them, thus showing that alienating these
voters in any way is politically risky for Democrats and so they ignore the
problem entirely. The progressive left has become openly hostile to the
institution of marriage and voting patterns explain why.
It's
been more than 20 years since a Democrat running for president won the majority of married women in America. Unmarried women by contrast vote overwhelmingly for Democrats in 2012 and 2016. The Democratic Party platform never mentioned the importance of marriage except when advocating for gay marriage.
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of Part 2
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