No, I am afraid they don’t, because your observations are wrong and his are correct.
Girls in one-parent families are twice as likely to have
an out-of-wedlock birth.
Regards,
Shodan
And with that, this thread is to continue without personal remarks about brazil84, anyone advocating on his behalf, or the posters criticizing him.
Out of wedlock births does not correspond to promiscuity. You’re equating them and they aren’t the same thing.
I’ve noted that men in these “biblical” type marriages complain the most about large alimony settlements handed out by family courts.
Besides which, there’s nothing in there that equates out-of-wedlock births to be the result of the fact that the family is “female-led”, which was the claim. That kind of sexism is entirely absent from the findings.
Well, if it’s a single parent family, and the single parent is the mum, it is logically a “female-led” family. That said I have never witnessed what is a family led by only one of the parents, but I was born into the XXth century, not the XIXth. Might explain that.
Yes, but it says nothing about out-of-wedlock births being the result of anything to do with the gender of the single parent, and I’d bet money there’s no correlation.
Getting back to the OP, I do think the guy seems like a jerk because the wife may have signed on for the husband acting this way, but his guests didn’t sign on for the spaghetti incident. Besides, isn’t being a good biblical host all about letting your guest eat plenty of food/wine? (And also not sodomizing them after they go to bed.)
How do we know that the out of wedlock births weren’t a result of the abuse received by the now absent father?
I think you’re supposed to let your guests bang your daughters, too.
I find it more faulty that he’s using single-parent households as a proxy for “female-led” households. As if having a wife be in charge of household decisionmaking is equivalent to there being no father in the home at all.
“Out of wedlock births” also includes women who are in committed relationships, but just aren’t legally married. That’s fairly commonplace these days. “Out of wedlock” doesn’t necessarily mean a one parent household.
Even without the “Biblical” marriage aspect of it, the husband in the OP sounds like someone who mentally is still sitting in Cheetos-stained Fruit-o-the-Looms in his parent’s basement playing WoW.
I think men who subscribe to the fallacy that most women want to be led have a hard time finding the middle ground between being a passive, pushover “nice guy” and a domineering “head of the house.”
Because I don’t think most women want a submissive spouse any more than they want a dominant one. However, being an equal, standing up for yourself and also not walking over one’s partner, is much more mentally demanding than rolling over all the time or being overbearing. So, when they note that women aren’t responding to their “nice guy” act, they assume it’s the opposite extreme and completely ignore the third option.
Warcraft is the devil!
One-parent household, however, does mean one-parent household.
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Besides which, there’s nothing in there that equates out-of-wedlock births to be the result of the fact that the family is “female-led”, which was the claim.
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No, that wasn’t the claim. You said
The vast majority of single-parent households are a single mother with her child(ren). Children who are raised in single-parent households - not 2-parent families, as you alleged - are twice as likely to have illegitimate children. Therefore, your observation is wrong.
Would you like to try to shift the goal posts to something else? Suppose we define “promiscuous” based on age at first intercourse.
No, this was not because of poverty -
Would you like to define promiscuity by number of sexual partners (or “liberation”, if you prefer)? Women with a non-resident father have greater numbers of sexual partners as well (cite - pdf).
It appears the best you can hope for is to represent your allegations as unfalsifiable and thus meaningless. If you meant anything at all by it, it was wrong.
Regards,
Shodan
Nah, the preachers daughters just lie about it. And they take it in the pooper so they don’t get pregnant (and they can still say they’re “virgins”).
Cite?
My dick is my cite.
Please do not link to your cite.