tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post114953819945027614..comments2023-06-22T06:46:19.888-07:00Comments on Just another disenfranchised father: The tyranny of coupledom.John Doehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05326982429461344063noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-1149614614400865272006-06-06T10:23:00.000-07:002006-06-06T10:23:00.000-07:00Hi Cap'n,I can see what you're getting at, and hav...Hi Cap'n,<BR/><BR/>I can see what you're getting at, and have often felt that way myself, but I don't think it's anything particularly new, at least insofar as the apparent inverse relationship between wealth and reproductiveness. There is good reason for this, and I take my argument from various sources in evolutionary psychology: if you don't have much, more kids implies a greater income for the family through sheer numbers. If, on the other hand, you have plenty you can buy whatever labor you need and you're better off investing more in your offspring to improve their quality and abilty to compete with their peers. The mechanics of wealth distribution will always be there, the question is how should any given individual approach the possibility of bettering their lot? If it is through not getting married and not having children, then that is what will happen, the population will drop, the human animal will get scared and things will change.<BR/><BR/>The trouble with "the traditional family" is that it depends on your, er, tradition. It means different things to different people. One should not ban divorce any more than one should ban abortion, the problem comes, as you point out, when it becomes more profitable to divorce than stay married. Like rampant abortion, rampant divorce has significant, deleterous, long-term knock on effects.John Doehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05326982429461344063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-1149612967656773432006-06-06T09:56:00.000-07:002006-06-06T09:56:00.000-07:00There is an important consequence of the large num...There is an important consequence of the large number of divorces that affect wealthy and successful men who get bled dry by their ex-wives. The result is that successful men (i.e. men with jobs or businesses) are now turning their backs en masse to marriage and having children. These are the very men who are most likely to be good fathers and who actually contribute something to society and have good values. These are the very men who are penalised by the courts and are as a consequence reluctant to marry. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, criminals, the permanently unemployed (bone idle) and single-mothers are breeding like rabbits because of the incentives presented by the extra welfare payments. These two factors mean that more children are now born into the worst family and social environments and less children are being born into good homes that have a working father as a role model. <BR/><BR/>Feminised politicians think that throwing money at single-mothers and the permanently jobless will help but in fact this just makes the listless lifestyle more appealing and more likely to result in more children being born to incompetent parents. Meanwhile, successful men live their lives as bachelors or as divorcees who never see their kids due to the spitefulness of the Family Courts system. I'm UK based but I suspect that this is repeated throughout the feminised, western world. <BR/><BR/>We are fast heading towards social meltdown. Family life as we knew it in the past has all but disappeared and has been replaced by large numbers of chaotic single-mother households or households where the children's parents never work and rely on welfare. <BR/><BR/>Feminism is the root cause of these problems and the restoration of the traditional family is essential. While ever the courts reward female divorcees so handsomely, family life will continue to whither and die.Captain Zarmbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08955303432008392976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16103538.post-1149612709182057592006-06-06T09:51:00.000-07:002006-06-06T09:51:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Captain Zarmbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08955303432008392976noreply@blogger.com