Children raised by single mothers are at a disadvantage to those with both parents, data show.
In 1970, three furious feminist tracts dominated the bestseller lists: Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex.” They, and others who comprised what was then called the “women’s lib” movement, fulminated against male dominance, endorsed sexual liberation and demanded that the nuclear family be smashed.
Their fame has faded, but their influence lives on. Lena Dunham, who has built a persona as a spokesman for women, wondered how any woman could reject the label feminist (a 2016 poll found that 68 percent of American women use the term to describe themselves). Her free-floating contempt for men was evident in a recent tweet: “I’d honestly rather fall into one million manholes than have one single dude tell me to watch my step.”
Note the resentment, even when men are attempting to be kind. Dunham is voicing the 21st-century version of the 1970s slogan: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” Without denying the beneficial effects of feminism, we are overdue for a reckoning about its missteps. One of those was stoking such bitterness between men and women.
While there is near-universal agreement that women should be treated equally in the workplace and in the family, other aspects of the feminist agenda — such as devaluing marriage — have left women more, not less vulnerable than they were pre-revolution.
In 2012, Katie Roiphe, feminist and mother of two children by different fathers, condemned concerns about single motherhood: “If there is anything that currently oppresses the children, it is the idea of the way families are ‘supposed to be.’ ” That’s the feminist mantra, but “alternative” families work only for a tiny minority. For most women, children and, as we’re coming to understand better with each passing year, men, the traditional family remains the gold standard.
Forty percent of American children are now born to single mothers
It should not be anti-feminist to recognize that men and women do need each other and that, contrary to feminist theories, marriage is a key pillar of stability for both sexes and especially for children. Feminists greeted unwed parenthood and easy divorce as steps on the ladder of liberation. For some it was and is. But the price has been steep. Women are commonly worse off financially after divorce than their ex-husbands. Those who worked before, during or after their marriages experienced a 20 percent decline in income after divorce, compared with men, whose incomes rose by 30 percent.
Forty percent of American children are now born to single mothers. This rate of non-marital births, combined with the nation’s high divorce rate, means that around half of all American children will spend part of their childhood in a single-parent home. Social scientists across the political spectrum agree this family chaos is destructive. In 2017, the poverty rate for woman-headed families with children was 36.5 percent, compared with 22.1 percent for father-only families and 7.5 percent for families headed by a married couple. And abundant data show married adults are happier, healthier and wealthier than singles.
The sexual revolution has scythed through the institution of marriage, leaving millions of women without the love and emotional and financial security that they and their children so need. It hasn’t been a picnic for men, either.
Recent studies about the effects of fatherlessness have revealed that the rise of single-parent (which usually means mother-only) families has had even worse consequences for boys than for girls. Father absence in African-American homes leads to more mental-health and behavioral problems for boys, according to an MIT study by two economists looking at brothers and sisters born in Florida between 1992 and 2002. “Growing up in a single-parent home appears to significantly decrease the probability of college attendance for boys but has no similar effect for girls.” They found other worrisome effects, too. “Fatherless boys are less ambitious, less hopeful and more likely to get into trouble at school than fatherless girls.”
Everything is connected. When more boys are growing up without fathers, there are fewer young men who become the kind of adults women want to marry — educated, employed, non-drug-abusing and not involved with the criminal-justice system. Without the grounding of marriage, men become disconnected from society. Some 22 percent of prime-age men (25 to 54) are not working or looking for work. Unmarried men are over-represented in this group. By contrast, married men with only high-school diplomas are much more likely to be employed than unmarried men with some college or an associate’s degree.
Diseases of despair — alcoholism, overdoses, suicide — have been rising among white, working-class Americans, the very population that has witnessed a steep decline in family stability over the past several decades.
Most women want and need upright, well-adjusted, dependable men to serve as co-anchors of healthy and happy families. The feminist movement was deeply misguided to take aim at marriage. Far from oppressing women, it offers a safe foundation for a full life.
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Somebody still impregnates these crazy twats.
The thirst is real, Iggy. These dudes out there will f*ck anything.
Including Lena Dunham.
Uh, Lena? We’d all rather have that.
I’d volunteer to remove the covers and those suckers are heavy.
Tell her to watch her step?
I’d push her skank ass.
Her father is Protestant of mostly English ancestry;[19] whereas her mother is Jewish.
The Jew pussy always wins with the beta Cuck.
Dunham has described herself as feeling “very culturally Jewish, although that’s the biggest cliché for a Jewish woman to say.” The works of acclaimed Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai helped her to connect with her Judaism
The Dunham family are cousins of the Tiffany family, prominent in the jewelry trade.[27]
I think she means Jewery, am I right Boron?
The Christian blood on the hands of her close relatives is legion.
This feminist anger is mental illness. There is nothing a woman cannot do. If you study history some of the most powerful people in antiquity were women. They were Queens ruling over armies. The anger and unhappiness in today’s females is related to the fact that they have been forced to take on too much. A woman with children should not be slaving away at some job because her scrub husband doesn’t make enough. Secretly these women envy stay at home mothers which is why they always have to trash them. Feminism is just another cult to damage society.
My father was a multi-degreed sole breadwinner for decades. He could never do that today. Some of those boys aren’t scrubs. Everything has changed financially.
Prior to women’s lib as a culture-wide phenomenon, circa 1970 and before, most newspapers advertised employment opportunities by sex, male and female. Oh, the horror!! Why? Because society recognized that men who were responsible for the welfare of their families (including more than likely a stay-at-home mom) needed work which paid well-enough for them to support a family. “Women’s liberation,” however, and women moving into the workforce in ever-larger numbers, put paid to that notion. The tightfisted bean-counters sensed an opening to cutting salaries for those men. After all, if mom was now working, too, why did an employer have to pay dad a living wage? The end result is that not only did men lose, so did their wives and unmarried women, too, as well as the children of society. Many of whom now were fated to grow up as latch-key kids, if they had married parents at all.
In 1970, a man just graduating from high-school could get work at an auto plant or other manufacturing job making a decent middle-class wage which would support a wife and children in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle and even allow for a few luxuries – such as a nice car and may be an annual vacation. Opulent? No…but the formula worked for millions upon millions of people. Today, fifty-three years later, those days seem very far away indeed – which is all the more tragic for the great American middle class, or what remains of it.
Several years ago there was talk of how UAW workers could work double shifts in auto assembly plants and essily pull in a least $140K.
Double shifts. That’s a man willing to work hard. Uncommon to find in the current batch of 25-30 year olds, of either sex.
ALL the young couples WITH children in our church are single income families. They are all doing fine. (One family has 9 children). A successful life is all about choices. It is amazing to me how many useless things Americans manage to squander their money on. You really need several thousand dollars of tattoes and a $80,000 SUV. Don’t forget to pick up some $250 Nike shoes for the kids! Idiots!
” (One family has 9 children). ”
What is the name of their TV show? When will it be airing?
Why the downvotes?
” Why the downvotes?”
🤣 I gave You an upvote. In acknowledgement, if nothing else. SOP, if concur. ANYBODY that ‘knows’ me?
“He Does Not give a shit”. i’ll leave it @ that.
👎?
Prolly the SAME peeps that
bitch, whinelament the lack of a ‘Screen Name’….And ‘Down Vote’…Anonymously! 🤣IMHO? It’s ALL about “The Words”.
Think they’re sittin’ in The Coliseum or something, apparently.
i have NEVER down voted, AND NOT about to start now.
If i have an ‘Opinion’……………(sorry for the brief interlude! Had to check to see if an integral part of my anatomy still extant)….I generally post it.
NOT into ‘attacking’…Although i was fairly young when i could not help but notice that ‘Smart’ people had NO COMPUNCTION AT ALL tryin’ to ‘get one over’/ were Rude & Abusive/Etc..
May address that as i see it. Still.
I tend to be ‘self-deprecating’, verbose, loquacious, ‘forgetful’, and use https://studyfinds.org/big-words-to-sound-smarter/ when i’m being a smart ass…In addition to my ‘Lunatic Fringe’ posts.
The former? Learned defense Mechanisms. From Youth.
‘Lunatic Fringe’?
Been workin’ on it all my life! AND, i like to think that a few are laughing with me. OR, @ me.
(key the delusions of grandeur comments)
Could care less, long as there is laughter. ‘Bout ALL that’s available. @ THIS Point.
The Circus’ is ongoing and getting more ‘Entertaining’ by the minute. The ‘Bread’ (in ANY manner of speaking) IS slip-sliddin’ Away.
Wanna venture an opinion/ have a ‘conversation?
Bring It.
ANY one having Nine(9) chillin’s?
God Bless ’em. Truly.
Because just about every woman in the so called West is a feminist and feminist ranting like this is the evidence.
Tittoos and Tattoes
Hear Hear Truth
Actually, you CAN live on one income, but you cannot keep up with the Jones’s on one income. My step-daughter and her husband did it for 20+ years and only now with their children grown can she enter the workplace, if she chooses.
My sister is about to hit 18 years since she became a housewife and mom. I really doubt she tries to start any career when the last ones are grown, even though she has a masters. I haven’t met too many people that work harder than that couple.
Why would any man sign up to slave for women and kids that don’t respect him.
Societal programming
So he goes out for cigarettes and never looks back.
Who is forcing women to take on too much?
Nobody!
Take responsibility for your own actions. You suffer the consequences of your own actions.
“A woman with children should not be slaving away at some job because her scrub husband doesn’t make enough.”
You chose to marry your scrub husband and have children with him. No one forced you to marry him. You suffer the consequences of your actions.
Suck it up buttercup!
“They were Queens ruling over armies.”
Guess what these queens didn’t complain about there scrub husband. They accepted that they made mistakes and moved forward.
Denise is typical women when she fucks up it’s someone else’s fault but when she is successful she did it all her own.
No woman should ever command authority over a man. Don’t like it? Take it up with God. The 2 possible Biblical exceptions are to demonstrate the consequences of men ceding responsibility to women by failing in their roles. Being ruled by women is explicitly a Biblical curse. There is a natural order that springs from our natural strengths and weaknesses.
Strife between the sexes results from too little love and too much sin.
This all needs a lengthy essay just to get in the basics, So I am going to stop there.
Have you seen what has become of hetero men? OMG they are weak ass momma’s boys with zero ambition. Incels and cucks everywhere….
The weak ass momma’s boys and incels were all raised by single mothers.
Have you seen what has become of hetero women.
This principle is found in the Bible.
“some of the most powerful people in antiquity were women”
and king tut was 17-18. When he died. (depends what ya read)
‘Child’ Royal ‘Figures’ throughout History. Please.
Beena shit show from the git-go.
Something ELSE is afoot.
What a load of feminist garbage.
Where are these feminists? When the Kardasian Ho’s, Bouncy Knowles and others run wild half-neked and proudly being a sex object for men, the feminists were quiet as a church mouse. Black rapers turned women into twerking stripper ho’s in every video, again dead silence from the bra burning feminists.
What is a feminist nowdays? I lost track of the definition.
Me Tooo Cult joined the Covidians and subsequently moved to I Support The Ukraine. Feminist are running out room for the next bumper sticker.
Well, I was afraid you were going to say they are all crazy cat ladies and bitchy Karens. Or worse, they are all really trannies reading to the chill’rens down at the liberry.
Data shows
Do it?
Data shows…
George Hearst to Odell: “…Ten dollars’ll buy a report that proves a find of pure ore in your ass!!!…”
So much for data.
This is the result of the Khazarian Mafia, the Bolsheviks, you know.
Most women? You mean most young women? I doubt it. Most young women have been indoctrinated to believe that men, particularly white men are demons. And if they aren’t demons, they are too dumb to breath.
Stop demonizing men. That would be a start.
Thanks for not demonizing men. First-wave feminazis were wealthy, privileged WASPs, mostly, though:
Plenty of other charmers leapt aboard later, of course, many of them Jews, as you wrote. And, of course, as always, a multitude joined in.
Add in welfare and currency devaluation, the 19th Amendment, easy divorce-rape courts, women in the navy in WWII, like some of my dead aunts, the Pill, etc., and there ya have it.
MGTOW is one response by men to the mess. Men need to scramble back to the top again, somehow. The way geopolitics seems to be heading, though, humanity may be put on hold for a few centuries or more.
Some of this tranny psychosis may be each of the two sexes trying to become what’s missing. And especially among dyke couples, there’s usually a “man” and the “femme” often goes out and buys a teaspoon of the only part of a bicycle a fish has use for, so she can conceive and “be a woman” and the two can sorta play house and have a family.
“Men need to scramble to the top again somehow”
I do not need to do anything. I will do what I want!
Sure. I just mean we used to be on top, and when that stopped, all this happened. We never should have left.
We?
Fuck no.
Just another cohencidence, goy.
They didn’t start it. Go back to the 1800s:
They certainly advanced mightily, in the following century.
Trivia QOTD:
From what country do the most sought after female fashion models come ?
The poorest ones.
You have to guess a country, Anon.
Give it a try, today’s prize is a life size Lori Lightfoot blow up sex doll.
Per capita, Estonia:
Sorry Anon- The Lori Lightfoot sex doll will carry over til next week. Those wonderful white girls have been nosed out this year by (hard to believe) Ethiopians. The new look is black and Ethiopian skinny, per the documentary I watched this afternoon. The doc was mostly about the Chinese using Ethiopians as slave labor in shoe factories. 🙂
Honorable mention as Baltic models are most numerous but the Ethiopian girls are the most sought after. They need dem dark black girls for ads depicting them as the white guy’s wife.
” Ethiopians” ?
Standard behind the scenes pageantry. They always swallow.
Russia.
Artist- I know you wanted the prize but, sorry…… timed out.
***** We need QOTD to come back…..Stucky, Admin???
A vid file for you, Artist, for when the topic is hockey…hope it posts. Click on the title to open a link where you’ll get sound.
Crazy.
-Suds
https://myrussianbrides.net/
Amazon books listing
Cruel Hoax: Feminism and the New World Order
by Henry Makow Ph.D. (Author)
From the Inside Flap
FEMINISM & HOMOSEXUALITY; HOW HETEROSEXUALITY WORKS Feminism, our official gender ideology, masquerades as a movement for woman’s rights. In reality, feminism is a cruel hoax, telling women their natural biological instincts are “socially constructed” to oppress them. Feminism is elite social engineering designed to destroy gender identity by making women masculine and men feminine. Increasingly heterosexuals are conditioned to behave like homosexuals who generally don’t marry and have children. Courtship and monogamy are being replaced by sexual promiscuity, prophesied in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Rockefeller and Rothschild created feminism to poison male-female relations (divide and conquer.) Their twin objectives are depopulation and totalitarian world government. Why? These bankers create money out of nothing and think they are God. “Cruel Hoax” shows the connection between feminism, Communism and 9-11. It examines male-female relations and shows how we can take back our heterosexuality.
“How to get a man? Be submissive!
See “The Power of Sexual Surrender” Read online – Torrent File
Men want power. Women want love. Heterosexual marriage is an exchange of female power for male power expressed as love. This exchange of power-for-love defines femininity. This is how two people become one. The husband regards his wife as being part of him, and identifies her interests as his own. She belongs to him. (Yes, a wife wants to belong to a loving husband.)”
A few here may know where this quote came from. Flash? BL?
Glock- You could try Makow, feminism is his special whipping post.
Yes, that is where I got it from.
Looks like some feminists voted you down on your 6:09 comment. 🙂
My only criticism about this article is that feminism and easy divorce are effects of the real problem. It completely glosses over the role of a husband and the spiritual aspect of marriage. The watering down of marriage came first when it stopped being a religious institution and became a government licensing opportunity. There’s still many men who are married that operate from their own egos towards their wives and family. This is why I roll my eyes at the man’s movement because it’s ego driven and lacks maturity.
They don’t seek the wisdom of a higher authority and rely on their own limited understanding of the world. The role of husband/father is a giving role, not a receiving role. The bible and religion makes it very clear the husband is the provider whose role is to be a giver not a taker. Without God a marriage is rudderless and a breeding ground for selfishness. Without God marriage is just a ceremony and a piece of paper. Removing God from marriage removes the foundation of marriage and it’s no longer a spiritual connection.
Beautifully said and wrote. Very inspiring.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Does Steph submit to her husband?
Nope, I’m not married and I don’t want to be either. Modern marriage is too dysfunctional.
Your go-to bible quote was about wives submitting to their husbands while side stepping the husband submitting to God first. If the husband doesn’t submit to God the wife shouldn’t submit to the husband. Every time that bible quote has been trotted out it’s to boost a man’s own ego and to dress up misogyny as religious doctrine.
A woman should never submit to any man who isn’t obedient to God because he’s operating from his own ego.
Steph
I agree with that a women shouldn’t summit to a man who doesn’t submit god
But do you worship God and remain a virgin?
You sound angry has you’re ego been hurt?
I’m not religious. I’m just using the religious argument regarding modern marriage no longer being a religious institution. My comment is about the article posted above. I have zero interest in religion or marriage.
FYI- Your obsession with a woman’s virginity is creepy.
Steph
Why do you interact with creeps like me?
Start going to church. You could be a happy tradwife.
Bad advice, Iska. Most churches are just social clubs and the people who attend are practicing Churchianity.
I know for a fact that it is not all churches. Find a good one or build one. We all struggle to be disciples of the Lord, which is why we need the church, so we can find the Kingdom of God through each other while still in this world.
I’ve developed a formula for living: The easiest thing to do is most often the wrong thing to do. Marriage in these times is no doubt dysfunctional. Be assured that there are many of us whom are swimming against the current and are trying to live up to the vows that we made before God and all assembled and whom are trying to teach our children by way of example the meaning of commitment and how to live life right.
AK47
How did this inspire you?
Exactly!!!
Rev6 are you a real reverend?
Rev check out dalrock.com
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,
Steph are you married? Was your husband your first? If you are single are you a virgin?
What about the man’s virginity? A man who is loose with women isn’t obedient to God and isn’t husband material.
Steph
I did not see any quotes from the bible that said men must be virgins. However it looks like male promiscuity is frowned upon by bible.
The bible states that women should remain virgins until they are married.
So your saying that if men are sluts you can be one too?
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
A man who isn’t a virgin before marriage doesn’t deserve a bride who is a virgin. Again, your obsession with a woman’s virginity is creepy. There’s numerous bible quotes about a man’s sexual morality you’re purposely ignoring so you can push your misogyny.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
“I’m not religious.”
Spiritual. Clearly.
P.S. Where’s abby, abbey, abbie? can’t remember
Steph
My apologies I thought I was dealing with a Christian woman. I assumed you were a chrino (Christian in name only)
You have every right to to be Christian atheist or any religion you want. You also have a right to live any way you want. You do you.
I also have a right to live my life the way I want.
If you want to be promiscuous because men are promiscuous you can because we live in a free country.
This creepy mysogynist wishes you well
I didn’t realize God gave you special authority to judge and test other people’s faith. I pretty sure He didn’t and I’m also sure He doesn’t bless hypocrites who spread falsehoods about sexual morality applying to only one gender.
And you also didn’t realize morality gave you special authority to judge and test other people’s actions?
And now the really hard question:
Why did I paraphrase you by replacing ‘God’ with ‘morality’?
Geez, Steph, that’s impressive. You should get this kind of get-up:
This picture is so confusing. She’s dressed like she should live on the kneading bread while living on the prairie but she’s wearing heels and make up?
She’s an OnlyFans pioneer.
I have gotten something good out of all of your comments in this thread, Stephanie.
Very nice Stephanie.
The money quote – The watering down of marriage came first when it stopped being a religious institution and became a government licensing opportunity.
It is hard to find a problem that the government has not either started or made worse by their “solutions”
Amen, Stephanie. Ego is them main problem for both sexes.
What about what men want and need?
Here’s an amusing activity: watch any speech specifically targeting women by politicians, and count the number of times they use the word: ‘deserve’. Also works as a drinking game.
I wonder when the MGTOW movement starts advocating for voluntary male sterilization instead of marriage? Talk about cratering the birth rate!
Women decide if and when they get pregnant, and they decide if the baby is born or not. Cratering birth rates is a phenomenon of women choosing career vs. family.
One man can impregnate thousands of women in his lifetime it will have no effect on birth rates.
Sperm is cheap.
Egg are expensive. (Especially at the grocery store hahahaha)
Whoever described MGTOW as feminism for men, really nailed it.
Katie Roiphe, feminist and mother of two children by different fathers, condemned concerns about single motherhood:
1) “My Child support(s) payments are not enough”
Why was she breeding? see: #1 above.
Zappa had the correct solution to the problem……..kiss my Ora Dora…….
Firstly, I doubt very much that any of the so-called authors in the opening wrote those books. I suspect they are the work of some Tavistock Institute douchers. Only men could write about how to disparage men with great accuracy. So there’s that. Saying it’s from some broad adds credibility for the uninitiated.
Most of the feminazi’s that I’ve encountered are so fucking ugly – like Dunham – only to the point of being passed-out hammered would even an incel stick it in her. They seem eternally pissed at any decent looking woman that can attract a man.
Single motherhood is not a virtue, it’s destructive as hell. But then, that’s the object now isn’t it. The gubbmint is your daddy, and a worse scenario I cannot imagine.
Out of wedlock parenting is the real problem.
If you look at the roots of the term “matrimony” it would appear to mean essentially a license to have children….
https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-matrimony-542851
Immorality more than anything, is destroying everything.
A lot of people never realize that the immorality hurts themselves, thinking the purpose of morality is to protect others.
The massive welfare state enabled women to go it alone with her kids. Of course, it also made them dependent on government and willing to vote for the candidate who promised the most free sh**. With Dominion, candidates no longer depend on votes from people, so you might see them dropping their interest in buying votes and increase their attention to increasing campaign contributions with the largesse of Uncle Sugar.
My wife has made the comment a number of times that she feels sorry for young men today. Her contention is there are lots of young women, but few worth having. Between how little their own mothers have taught them and how badly they treat their boyfriends, no wonder so many young men are giving up on having a meaningful relationship with a woman.
My wife gets sad when she meets really outstanding young people wondering how they will find mates worthy of themselves.