Unmarried with children

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Record number born to the unwed "The overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or living together without getting married."

It is no surprising that with the decline of marriage that the number of children born out of wedlock would increase. The good news is that the number of children born to children (under 18) has declined.

It is no coincidence that the culture changed in the 60's with the "great society" by LBJ allowing women more independency and a growing number in college (now more then men) and the joining the workforce, all of which are good things. However, it came at the cost of undermining the importance of men in the household and in the lives of the children.

Don't get me wrong, many many men don't deserve to reproduce and when they do, should not be involved except in a financial way. But the liberal agenda has made it so easy to dismiss the father that it is actually a penalty financially to be married to one. The tax code rewards single low-income parents with the (EIC) Earned Income Credit. This is not a bad thing but the way it is structured it rewards underachievement in the workforce and makes it difficult to be married.

They are forced to play a game of cat and mouse with the IRS, a case I read about had a woman who was not claiming head of household but did claim the EIC because she made about 18,000 per year and received around 3,500 from the credit. However, it turned out that the father lived in the house too and made around 40,000 per year but didn't claim the children. So this household of 58,000 was also receiving 3,500 from uncle same.

The last 40 years men have been demoted, metronized & made to feel that the world's evil is their fault. I guess it was our fault that we bit from the apple and not theirs for offering it to us.
Chris Mendelson
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