The rate of marriage per 1000 people has been halved in the past 20 years. That is the road we are on today. Family Courts are contributing to their breakdown. This takes away the lure that a woman can dispose of a husband and take the children and money. Rights and freedom mean little or nothing if the state can deprive you of your children and home on the basis of an unsupported allegation.
Marriage means even less.
Girls grow to be mothers without ever seeing a role for men, fathers or husbands while looking to government as the provider. Behind the mute girth of Teddy Kennedy, the core issues of our polity and culture are being debated in Massachusetts. When more candidates start addressing these matters as Lawler is an upsurge of citizen interest and participation will provide an opportunity to rescue our disintegrating nation, our families and our freedom. Eugene Narrett, Ph. D is a favorite Toogood Reports columnist and Professor of English who frequently has punctured the cloud of therapeutic cliches smothering this nation like a chloroformed pillow.