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From the guy who blames Bush for the last tsunami.

-5.37. Best time yet.

A Merry Christmas to you too.

Thanks for the info.

I'm not the one who voted for Bush twice. Nor the one who blew the most important decision of his life..who he chose to marry and have children with.

Canada has a military capability?

They would have to be simply a territory, otherwise the Democrats would have a stranglehold on government. The neo-cons don't want that.

What a moron and a terrible parent.

The problem is politician is simply a synonym for deceitful person. Yes, the newborns only need a 1' brand.

We got enough socialists in the US already without annexing Canada with its moronic citizens.

A 3' A branded on the forehead would certainly slow the spread of this disease.

Well, at least you could spell the word. There is no totally free market anywhere. The very fact there are treaties proves that. With a totally free market I could trade with some dumb chink in China without government interference as easily as I can my next door neighbor. Of course, we are way off topic. The fact is any idiot knows that all things else being equal a child is better off with two loving and caring parents than one. I would go on about the need to ensure property rights in order to maximize liberty and economic activity but I am sure a thief , like yourself, would find respecting the property of others as an invalid concept.

What a moron. The global system is nowhere close to a free market environment. Under laissez-faire there would be no tariffs, no subsidies and no need for trade agreements. Why don't you go to Moscow and turn Lenin over and continue kissing his ass.

You are a total idiot. From ww.sudan.gov That ain't laisez-faire.

It is quite clear you are an idiot. Let me explain this...two good parents help their child overcome a bad environment. In every environment you have success stories.

Yep, sure can. It is government taking money from responsible peaople and giving it to irresponsible people that propagates illegitimacy and poverty. I wish government to stay out of the issue completely. The free market will adequately punish the irresponsible. Wanna reduce poverty...stop paying people to have kids they can't support. Basic rule in economics: subsidize something you get more of it.

You are actually half right. What you are missing is the vicious cycle. Children being born out of wedlock, particularly to those in lower income classes, propagates poverty, misery and crime. What we also need to ask is why the rate of illegitimacy has tripled since the late Senator Moynihan's famous report on the destruction of the negro family. It seems to me that LBJ's war on poverty simply created more poverty. The only thing I have argued is that children from single parent families are more likely to be messed up kids, not that they will be. Obviously, the ideal situation is to be part of a happy family. Sadly, we don't live in an ideal world. Cause and effect are intertwined here. If illegitimacy was simply the result of economic conditions illegitimacy would not have nearly tripled since the '60's.

[ Testimony of Michael Tanner Director of Health and Welfare Studies The Cato Institute Before the: Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Youth Violence June 7, 1995 Last year, the Maryland NAACP released a report concluding that "the ready access to a lifetime of welfare and free social service programs is a major contributory factor to the crime problems we face today."(1) Their conclusion appears to be confirmed by academic research. For example, research by Dr. June O'Neill's and Anne Hill for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed that a 50 percent increase in the monthly value of combined AFDC and food stamp benefits led to a 117 percent increase in the crime rate among young black men.(2) Welfare contributes to crime in several ways. First, children from single-parent families are more likely to become involved in criminal activity. According to one study, children raised in single-parent families are one-third more likely to exhibit anti-social behavior.(3) Moreover, O'Neill found that, holding other variables constant, black children from single- parent households are twice as likely to commit crimes as black children from a family where the father is present. Nearly 70 percent of juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes, as do 43 percent of prison inmates.(4) Research indicates a direct correlation between crime rates and the number of single-parent families in a neighborhood.(5) As Barbara Dafoe Whitehead noted in her seminal article for The Atlantic Monthly: The relationship [between single-parent families and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime. This conclusion shows up time and again in the literature. The nation's mayors, as well as police officers, social workers, probation officers, and court officials, consistently point to family break up as the most important source of rising rates of crime.(6) At the same time, the evidence of a link between the availability of welfare and out-of-wedlock births is overwhelming. There have been 13 major studies of the relationship between the availability of welfare benefits and out-of-wedlock birth. Of these, 11 found a statistically significant correlation. Among the best of these studies is the work done by June O'Neill for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Holding constant a wide range of variables, including income, education, and urban vs. suburban setting, the study found that a 50 percent increase in the value of AFDC and foodstamp payments led to a 43 percent increase in the number of out-of-wedlock births.(7) Likewise, research by Shelley Lundberg and Robert Plotnick of the University of Washington showed that an increase in welfare benefits of $200 per month per family increased the rate of out-of-wedlock births among teenagers by 150 percent.(8) The same results can be seen from welfare systems in other countries. For example, a recent study of the impact of Canada's social-welfare system on family structure concluded that "providing additional benefits to single parents encourages births of children to unwed women."(9) Until teenage girls, particularly those living in relative poverty, can be made to see real consequences from pregnancy, it will be impossible to gain control over the problem of out-of- wedlock births. By disguising those consequences, welfare makes it easier for these girls to make the decisions that will lead to unwed motherhood. Current welfare policies seem to be designed with an appallingly lack of concern for their impact on out-of-wedlock births. Indeed, Medicaid programs in 11 states actually provide infertility treatments to single women on welfare.(12) I should also point out that, once the child is born, welfare also appears to discourage the mother from marrying in the future. Research by Robert Hutchins of Cornell University shows that a 10 percent increase in AFDC benefits leads to an eight percent decrease in the marriage rate of single mothers.(13) As welfare contributes to the rise in out-of-wedlock births and single-parent families, it concomitantly contributes to the associated increase in criminal activity. Secondly, welfare leads to increased crime by contributing to the marginalization of young black men in society. There are certainly many factors contributing to the increasing alienation and marginalization of young black men, including racism, poverty, and the failure of our educational system. However, welfare contributes as well. The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family. They are in effect cuckolded by the state. Their role of father and breadwinner is supplanted by the welfare check. The role of marriage and family as a civilizing influence on young men has long been discussed. Whether or not strict causation can be proven, it is certainly true that unwed fathers are more likely to use drugs and become involved in criminal behavior.(14) Indeed, single men are five times more likely to commit violent crimes than married men.(15) Finally, in areas where there is a high concentration of welfare, there may be an almost total lack of male role models. This can lead to crime in two ways. First, as the Maryland NAACP puts it, "A child whose parents draw a welfare check without going to work does not understand that in this society at least one parent is expected to rise five days of each week to go to some type of job."(16) Second, boys growing up in mother only families naturally seek male influences. Unfortunately, in many inner city neighborhoods, those male role models may not exist. As George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty, has noted, the typical inner-city today is "almost a matriarchy. The women receive all the income, dominate the social-worker classes, and most of the schools." Thus, the boy in search of male guidance and companionship may end up in the company of gangs or other undesirable influences.(17) Notes John L. Wright, Marge Green, and Leroy Warren, Jr., "An Assessment of Crime in Maryland Today," Maryland State Conference of Branches, NAACP, February 1994, "Executive Summary," p. 7. M. Anne Hill and June O'Neill, "Underclass Behaviors in the United States: Measurement and Analysis of Determinants," Barcuch College, City University of New York, March 1990. Deborah Dawson, MD, "Family Structure and Children's Health and Well-Being: Data From the 1988 Interview Survey on Child Health," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 1990. William Barr, "Crime, Poverty, and Family," Heritage Foundation Lectures, July 29, 1992, citing statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. See, for example, Douglas Smith and G. Roger Jarjoura, "Social structure and Criminal Victimization," Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, February 1988; William Niskanen, "Crime, Police, and Root Causes," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 218, November 14, 1994. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, "Dan Quayle Was Right, Atlantic Monthly, April 1993. Hill and O'Neill. Shelley Lundberg and Robert Plotnick, "Adolescent Premarital Childbearing: Do Opportunity Costs Matter?" Population Association of America, May 1990. Douglas Allen, "Welfare and the Family: The Canadian Experience," Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993. Ellen Freeman, Karl Rickles, et. al., "Adolescent Contraceptive Use: Comparisons of Male and Female Attitudes and Information," American Journal of Public Health, August 1980. Laurie Schwab Zabin, Nan Marie Astone, and Mark Emerson, "Do Adolescents Want Babies? The Relationship Between Attitudes and Behavior," Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1993. Professor Zabin reports that among those teens who chose an abortion, fully 78 percent believed that having a baby would pose a problem. But, as Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute points out "that is exactly the point: the more inconvenient unwed parenthood seems to a teenager, the less likely it is that she will become a mother. Douglas Besharov, letter to the editor, Wall Street Journal, April 27, 1994. Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. "The Infertility Trap," Newsweek, April 4, 1994. Robert Hutchins, "Welfare, Remarriage and Marital Search," American Economic Review, June 1989. Robert Lerman, "Unwed Fathers: Who Are They?" The American Enterprise, September/October 1993. "From Home Life to Prison Life: The Roots of American Crime," Rockford Institute Center on the Family in America, Vol. 3, no. 4, April 1994. Wright, Green, and Warren. See, for example, David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (New York: Basic Books, 1995), pp. 26-32. See, Michael Tanner, "Ending Welfare as We Know It," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 212, July 7, 1994. Notice the sources cited in this article. Forgive me for not taking time to use government sources to document the obvious, two parents tend to do a better job then one. Builder has a point that two people should not stay together simply for the childrens sake, but 16 year olds having children out of wedlock should definitely be discouraged. A upper income family that gets divorced can use other resources and, of course, the non-custodial parent can remain a strong influence in a child's life. Currently our government subsidizes the bastardization of America. That needs to stop.

More info for those capable of processing information. The Secret Is Out By Larry Elder FrontPageMagazine.com | January 26, 2001 The connection between fatherlessness and crime is so clear that only a total moron (such as CES) cannot see it.

Clearly one internal organ that ain't working properly is your brain.

From: THE ROOT CAUSES OF CRIME by David MacRae

Ain't got much to do with apiece of paper. Most prisoners have no father figure, legal or otherwise, to speak of. Parenting is one tough job that works best with two people doing it. The crime rates of children of single parent homes speaks for itself.

Hate to tell you this..14 year olds getting laid by older men predates Christianity.

14 year olds know what they are doing. Statutory rape laws are ageism. Old enough to bleed...old enough to breed.

Newton was a Christian.