Cop Under Fire by David Clarke

Author:David Clarke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worthy Publishing
Published: 2017-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

The Value of Families

If you have forgotten, here’s precisely what Quayle said: “Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this,” he said in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California.

“It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.”

I never saw Murphy Brown. There’s not enough time in the world to make me sit down and waste my life in front of a screen playing that drivel. I don’t watch television unless it’s to catch South Park, a Dallas Cowboys game, or Fox News. But evidently, the main character of this show, played by Candice Bergen, believed having a kid without a father in the picture was just fine. Quayle’s speech about “family values” created a huge controversy back in ’92. But reading this quote now makes you wonder what the big deal was. His words seem like basic common sense, or maybe they are even prophetic.

Since Quayle had the temerity to point out the need for fathers, the number of single parents in America has skyrocketed. For the first time in the history of the United States, fewer than 60 percent of first-born US babies were brought into this world with a married mother and father. More than one in five first-born children now have parents who are shacking up.1 Some researchers describe these “fragile families” as only strong enough to create children, but not strong enough to support them. Frequently, these couples break apart after the babies are born.

Do you think this has devastated wealthy forty-something white women like the fictional Murphy Brown? No. Wealthier Americans have a bigger cushion. If they end up with a child out of wedlock, they have high enough salaries and family support that they can usually make it. But poorer people living on a shoestring can’t survive high gas prices, much less absorb the expense and complication of another human being. That’s the thing about the philosophies that white liberals so casually try to shove down the culture’s throat. When they proudly stand up and demand that marriage comes in many different flavors—or, more accurately, that it doesn’t matter at all—they’re promoting an idea that creates higher risks for poverty, lower educational attainment, and family instability. They are actually hurting poor people, not themselves. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why college-educated folks are the only demographic left in America that still has children within the benefit of marriage? It’s better for the children, for the parents, and for society.

This answer is so obvious that even a liberal buffoon at CNN can see it. After the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Don Lemon went on air with recommendations about how black people can get their acts together. The first one was a doozy:

Black people … Just because you can have a baby, it doesn’t mean you should.

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