Obama/Gillard should not be promoting single-parent families

duglock · 2012-06-13T16:15:22+00:00

Leftists will always try to break down any type of unifying structure (church, family, etc). Marx laid it out as all of these things are obstacles in their desire to rule over every single aspect of society.

HowardB · 2012-06-13T14:17:59+00:00

Just substitute feminist Gillard for feminist Obama in the story.

The Life of Julia (Gillard) ad - with the glaring omission of a father for her child is an insidious attack on the institution of the family, and endorsement of bureaugamy (married to State welfare) - clearly targets single women, especially those with children. And for a good political reason.

There are 10 million more single women than single men in the United States. More than a quarter of the voting population, they are the group most likely to favour government patronage — particularly women with dependents -70% voted Obama at the last election. Between 2000-2010, the number of single women eligible to vote rose by 19%.

But research shows that when single women marry, or divorced women remarry, they begin to vote like other married women — that is, their voting trends rightward by a 40 point shift.

In purely arithmetic terms, therefore, Democrats have an interest in expanding the ranks of single unmarried women. Hence predatory divorce and DV laws.

This implicit endorsement of single-parent families comprises a betrayal of fatherless children and most single mothers.

Single motherhood has been exhaustively researched and its consequences widely distributed. Obama must know, or should know, that the “father deficit” is the single most reliable predictor for children’s diminished self-esteem, behavioural problems, poor grades and truancy, early school dropout, juvenile delinquency (85% of youth in prison have an absent father), gang membership, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, risk of sexual abuse, substance abuse and homelessness.

But acknowledging these facts when addressing single women voters will not advance Obama’s political fortunes. What will advance them is his false assurance that the state can bestow comparable value to what has traditionally been provided by husbands and fathers.

Title	Obama/Gillard should not be promoting single-parent families
Author	HowardB
Upvotes	9
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Date	June 13, 2012 2:17 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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