A new GOP agenda

This article reminds us that Rick Santorum was speaking out about the problem that 40% of children are being born without married parents today, and here Erik gives two suggestions favoring married people. I too hate the marriage penalties that the democrats throw into their legislation, like the new $400K is ok for a single person, but only $450 for a married person and their family, ” in yesterday’s law.

The other taxes, FICA, SS etc, chop into the other spouses check, and then they pay withholding on their minimum wage job, and either owe a large sum based on the spouses income, or change the withholding so they get only Gas Money to drive to work in their paycheck.

Social conservatives want to “drive” people back to the married parents and one parent at home model as a remedy for all the social ills the “single parent, mom usually” is doing to our culture.

However, I think we should address the issue from a different tack. Start requiring the same responsibility from the Two Parents who CHOOSE NOT TO MARRY and holding them to the same account. Stop saying the children of single moms have only $24K to live on. Add in dad’s money, and stop treating it as apples and oranges, many two parent families have only a little more than $24K to live on.

It is REALLY hard to get MEN to agree on what the responsibility and the rewards of single parenthood should be. The loudest complainers are usually the men saying everything is unfair to them. And perhaps it might be, but that is where we need to look now. No kid is a single parent kid unless their mother chooses artificial insemination. I think I would limit this for single women with caveats that make it unappealing. The law is bending right now as children look for their birth fathers and demand rights. Biology is truth, should the law help people hide one parent?

For instance, if they cannot support or do not support that child it will be taken by social services and put up for adoption. The same with the women who don’t work out support with their baby dadeez, if they don’t work it out, they should lose those children to a responsible family member or to adoption if they, not the government, fail to support that child. And allow grandparents of the dads to take children away from these single women, because of their economic stability. Force single dads to provide half the weeks care, and pick up babies at the daycare.

A whole new set of laws need to be defined that put the responsibility married parents assume onto unmarried parents. The government is not your daddy, you have a daddy that mommy likes less than her new boyfriend, or you have a daddy that doesn’t love mom so he stays away, or you have a daddy that I don’t want to SHARE you with, all games that our laws should not condone. Divorced parents are single parents, why are the standards not set for these unmarried parents?

Right now, when an unmarried mother is filling out the birth certificate, a government document, unmarried women first contact the government bureaucracy and world of LAW they did not know existed. There are paternity tests, isn’t that hysterical? And legal claims. This is where new conservative legislation has to happen. These unmarried people have no structures except what the state tells them to do. Two Parent responsibility needs to be the preference of custody agreements. I think we need to make single parenthood as hard as possible, and make marriage an alternative full of freedom from regulation. As soon as the baby is drinking from a bottle, it needs to go to daddy’s house 3.5 days per week.

What has been abused is the meaning of the old laws that did not allow an unmarried mother with an illegitimate child to take away resources with a claim against the legitimate mother. It was a protection for married women that married men had to support that legitimate family first. I still think we should give first families and first wives precedent somehow, protection from the claims of hussies…(I will tell you what it is called…a vasectomy.) But single mothers need the court telling them at the first custody hearing that the father they have chosen for their baby, has to participate, or someone from his family may, and that she only gets 50% of the say in raising the child, and 50% responsibility. And if it fails, the rules that cover divorce parenthood need to be invoked…

We can’t ignore the lax rules governing single women and their choices any longer. Pro marriage, Pro family-unit conservatives need to demand that the law demand responsibility from the people who won’t self regulate.

Ok, I am not being just a little bit ironic, but seriously, 40% of the new babies are born to parents without a legal plan, I don’t care if you don’t want to wear a white dress and live together, Single is a dating status not a parental status, short of death or divorce; just stop wanting my pity and someone who is not your child’s parent to pay your way. I am demanding the single parents sign a legal plan and stick to it.

Fleuries on January 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM