The American family is falling apart

[palou]

numberwang said:

xenogears1234 said:

Yeah i think the OP is more interested in propagating an agenda than engaging in a meaningful discussion/debate on this complex topic.

What am I supposed to do with a positive anecdote? Good thing it worked out for them in the end but it is not representative.

Of students in grades 1 through 12, 39 percent (17.7 million) live in homes absent their biological fathers.

In 2011, children living in female-headed homes with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6%. This is over four times the rate for children living in married couple families.

57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers.

http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and-research/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/

There is a difference between marriage and single parenting. You are comparing 2 very different things. Here in Quebec, for example, people are increasingly considering marriage to be a waste of time. In the younger generations, there are now more people that classify as "conjoints de fait", then married individuals (the former being a term used by the Quebec government to describe people who have lived together for over a year without marrying.) 

These relationships are fully intended to be permanent.

So, in essence, it's just a matter of nomenclature. Families are still a thing, they're just not marrying. I don't see how that's a problem.

 

I'd imagine it to be similar elsewhere

Last edited by palou - on 07 April 2018