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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	The sad reality of fatherhood in America
	Date:	6/21/2010 10:07:19 AM

Hound, I agree that traditional marriage is not the norm in economically disadvantaged areas but you have to ask the question why. It isn't about poverty because in the past blacks were very devoted to the concept of the family. What economic or societal circumstances caused them to move away from traditional marriage much more rapidly than other segments of society? I maintain, and there is plenty of peer-reviewed research to back it up, that the government's war on poverty started by Johnson and his great society concept was the root of this evil. Once again, liberal intentions that were good but fly in the face of common sense, human nature and all evidence to the contrary. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work or even makes things worse as long as the leftists mean well.

As for your prescription for teenage pregnancies, can't you see that all the evidence points to the failure of your approach? Well designed and well funded (private funding GF) abstinence only programs work better than your approach. What amazes me is you take a program like yours that results in x% teen pregnancy and compare it to abstinence only programs that result in lower pregnancy rates and you pronounce the abstinence programs a failure because they are not 100% effective. Don't you see that this makes absolutely no sense? Let's do what works best even if it isn't perfect rather than blindly continuing to do what works worse.......why don't people give teens more credit?

I do agree with your cutting off welfare funding because it promotes and rewards bad behavior.

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