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How we came to embrace illegitimacy.
Some time in the 60s and 70s something let the illegitimacy genie out of the bottle in the US. In the early 1960s we went from out of wedlock birth rates consistently under 5% to a dramatic upslope leading to … Continue reading
Posted in Child Custody, Child Support, Data, Illegitimacy
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Did the last decade prove that gay marriage isn’t really a problem?
Ross Douthat with the New York Times notes that David Frum has changed his position on gay marriage after concluding: If people like me had been right, we should have seen the American family become radically more unstable over the … Continue reading
Posted in Child Custody, Data, Divorce, Marriage
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Single mothers and the failure of Christian men; it is time to Man Up!
I pointed out in Light years closer to God that Christian men are failing women, and the primary failure is their unwillingness to confront the mass feminist rebellion. As a man calling out other men is easy. It feels brave, like you … Continue reading
Latest Divorce Rate Chart from 2012 State of Our Unions
Back in July of 2012 I pointed out that the conventional wisdom on the trend in US divorce rates appeared to be changing. The reason is the official data set gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics has been … Continue reading
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Not Glad Tidings for Post Marital Spinsters.
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University has crunched the numbers on the latest remarriage stats: Men are more likely to remarry than women, and this difference grows dramatically with age. Note that only … Continue reading
