Also, speaking out against illegitimacy counts as education, and it’s free. We don’t spend billions just to teach people that racism and homophobia are bad, yet somehow most people have internalized that.
Oh yeah, that’s because we shame such people! Wow, amazing how that works.
So your contention is that things were better when women were forced by socio-economic realities and religious dogma to stay with men who abused them.
Yes, shaming people is bad. It’s also counterproductive as it does nothing about single parents now nor do any studies show that it deters others.
No. However, with greater freedom comes greater responsibility, and we don’t just give people a pass for being irresponsible. In fact, expecting people to be responsible is an integral part of being free.
The only time when illegitimacy was rare was before humanity evolved. Unless you’re saying that your plan is to pretend that it doesn’t happen?
In my state, there are no illegitimate children. At least, not for over a half a century. It is a non-meaningful term.
Then pick one you like better. Children born to single parents are tremendously disadvantaged compared to children born in two parent families. That’s just facts. Should there be a social stigma to disadvantaging your children? Hell yes. Liberals seem comfortable enough slamming parents for making their kids fat.
Welcome to episode 9453 of the Adaher show: Liberals love bastards but hate the fatties. The 2016 republican candidates have all declined to comment.
Firstly, “out of wedlock” doesn’t always mean “single parent,” but you knew that. Secondly, you’d like people to turn up their noses at children due to something out of their control and stamp them with the “bastard” label, yet prevent their parents from having any education or resources that might aid them in avoiding the creation of one of these pariahs and thusly dooming them both.
If two parents are better than one, why not six? Twenty? Perhaps our children would be better served growing up in some sort of kibbutz-like setting. After all, it really does take a village anyway.
Except for the whole publicizing the mothers’ sexual history thing, that is.
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As governor of Florida in 2001, Bush had the opportunity to test his theory on public shaming. He declined to veto a very controversial bill that required single mothers who did not know the identity of the father to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper before they could legally put their babies up for adoption
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CNN Politics on why Jeb is struggling a bit so far: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/10/politics/jeb-bush-2016-competition/index.html
But, that is exactly what the Republican authors of that bill were trying to do.
Well, no, it isn’t. It can be sometimes, if it means a mother is stuck raising the child with no help from the father, but it is not a bad thing in and of itself, and some mothers choose to have a kid but not have a man around – some even go to sperm banks for the purpose – and that’s a perfectly sound choice if they can handle it.
I can entirely sympathize with her position, I have found parenting to be the single most fulfilling and rewarding experience of my life. I would not do it again for all the Wowee in Maui.
[mrs. 'luci taps hubby’s shoulder, clears throat] “Dear? I have some news . . .”
['luci’s trouser-cuffs leak noisomely]
The Irresistible Force meets the Immovable Object with the Impossible Result. Bethlehem or Lourdes, flip a coin.
It looks like Angela Merkel’s CDU Party is doing all it can to welcome Jeb to Germany and make him seem Presidential. I guess all that NSA spying on Merkel pissed them off some.
Well, she made Obama look like a million bucks too. I have to think this is more about not appearing partisan. It’s not like Jeb is going to be good on NSA spying.
I know that presenting scientific fact to a right-wing ideologue is as rude as shoving a crucifix in Dracula’s face, but here goes:
Big article quoting many Republican campaign types and not once does it mention that while being a Bush might bring name recognition, that might not be a positive.