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November 30, 2007
Tragedy Averted
Posted by Dave Blount at November 30, 2007 6:57 AM
If there's one factor that overwhelms all others in causing poverty and social disintegration, it is having children out of wedlock. Children born without fathers almost invariably grow up poor and morally disoriented. The simple fact is that it requires both a mother and a father to raise children properly. Those raised improperly grow up to inhabit ghettoes.
The percentage of extramarital births has been exploding for two reasons: 1) moonbattery has corroded our moral values; and 2) liberal governments, which stand to gain power by making us more dependent, actually offer financial incentives to women who crank out fatherless babies they can't afford to raise.
A case in point is 17-year-old Kirsty Oldfield, a student at Salt Grammar School in Baildon, West Yorks. When both her parents died, bureauweenies informed her she could get money to stay in school — by getting pregnant:
A Department of Work and Pensions spokesman said a girl aged 17 who had a child and was not working would be able to claim child benefit and may also be able to claim tax credits, housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support.
They might as well offer teenagers benefits for taking up heroin.
Thankfully the pre-moonbattery means of helping those in need — voluntary charity — has produced almost £4,000 in pledges in just 24 hours to help Kirsty through school.
Hat tip: Nothing to Do with Arbroath, on a tip from Steve.
