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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Is the dissolution of the traditional family structure a symptom or cause of our economic decline?

And political decline.

More single moms, absent fathers, etc. is this a cause or sign of our increasingly f'd up country.

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago
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    As a group single parents are more economically unstable. Their boys do worse in education, they are more likely to be addicted to drugs, they are more likely to be violent or to do time for a violent crime.

    The boys raised with out a father make the majority of people in prison. Now that our of wedlock births are at an all time high, the number per thousand of men that are in prison, or on probation are at an all time high. Women account for 60% of college graduates and in a generation they will be 70%. They major in things like dance or art history and have little interest in the sciences or engineering.

    The short answer is yes there are several areas where the chickens are coming home to roost on the dissolution of the traditional family structure. Most of the opposition to this question will come from women that accidental got pregnant with a man that was resentful that all this was shoved down his throat for trusting her with birth control, and then splitting from the scene.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    What you call a dissolution of the traditional family is an evolution in the nuclear family makeup. There are alternatives to what was considered the traditional family. The nuclear family is flexible. From two parents and 2 kids to 0 kids and one parent to gay couples with kids. Things have changed in society over the last 60 years.

  • 4 years ago

    impressive occasion: "I undergo in ideas one in each and every of my severe college classmates. Very smart woman who have been given her undergrad degree at Holy circulate and a grad degree at Columbia. in the present day, she is a SAHM with 2 babies." She is solidly center classification. she might have married somebody from the comparable socio-financial classification. somebody properly-knowledgeable, who earns a severe earnings like a doctor or a lawyer. This relatives could manage to pay for to stay to tell the story one earnings. those fortunate human beings characterize in basic terms a tiny minority: maximum families desire 2 earning as a manner to stay to tell the story. it extremely is different from while i became a infant in the 60's and 70's anymore: not greater blue-collar, severe-paying union jobs on the production facility, plant or pulp-and-paper mill for dad anymore. in actuality, via the tip of the 1980's those production facility jobs had moved foreign places in seek of greater value-effective overhead and NO commerce unions. specific. and by the comparable term (1950-1980's) those blue collar jobs have been everywhere. 401-k, wellbeing look after anybody, dental insurance - you call it and it became there - courtesy of "IAATSA community 22"! they are long previous now, and you may desire to handle actuality because it extremely is, no longer because it became. it extremely is an entire distinctive worldwide obtainable edit: Why might she marry a keep clerk as quickly as all of us comprehend human beings have a tendency to marry human beings from their own socio-financial classification! Hahaha... all those journeys to the nutrients financial enterprise might desire to be basically hard! it extremely is BS, and you recognize it. the #a million reason couples divorce is over funds by using fact "love" does not pay the charges. no longer something like an entire relatives attempting to stay to tell the story a Petsmart supervisor's revenue; what, in line with risk an annual earnings of $12,000.00? Why might somebody with a grad degree no longer use it and actively opt for for her finished relatives to proceed to be properly under the poverty line ...it is the genuine question here. What a brilliant existence!

  • cosmo
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    What economic decline is that? Last time I looked, the American stock market was hitting new highs.

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  • 8 years ago

    It's a big part of the cause. You have so many people leechiing off of the work of others, and that just can't continue to exist. When you reward any particular behavior, you tend to get more of it. When you reward women for getting pregnant with no way of supporting that baby themself, you get more leeches.

    If you want the economy to get better, you have to have less leeches living off of the hard work of others. We have tipped the scales, and we just can't support so many lazy able-bodied people.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Kids went to work in coal mines and factories to support their parents because the wages their fathers earned were so low.

  • 8 years ago

    The illuminati is always trying to outsmart us, with population control as their main focus.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    mark sanford=gop family values

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