The Goat Pen

aTm wrote:It doesn't seem like you live in the same country that I do.

CRASHCOURSE: I don't think your 50% of jailbirds being products of single moms holds much weight for causing the decay in society prisoners are coming from.

"Look at our prison population of over 3,000,000 and almost 50% of those are children of single moms."

eCat wrote:I bet they all wore hoodies too

Owlman wrote:

CRASHCOURSE: I don't think your 50% of jailbirds being products of single moms holds much weight for causing the decay in society prisoners are coming from.

This is what IB actually said.

"Look at our prison population of over 3,000,000 and almost 50% of those are children of single moms."

This means more than 50% are from married moms, which means most of the prison population are from two parent households and by that IB's logic, marriage and two-parent households is the reason for the decay and society.

Truthfully, I doubt the stat anyway and much of what IB has printed isn't based on any statistical analysis but his opinion based on his personal observations or just beliefs. Doesn't mean he's wrong. Doesn't mean he's right. But awaiting better stats.

Reminds me of the lady on the radio who pointed out that smoking increased during and after WWI while at the same time lifespan increased. Therefore she said, smoking is good for you.

First Wife Ann Coulter wrote:“Here is the lottery ticket that single mothers are handing their innocent children by choosing to raise them without fathers: Controlling for socioeconomic status, race, and place of residence, the strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was raised by a single parent. By 1996, 70 percent of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy-two percent of juvenile murderers and 60 percent of rapists come from single-mother homes. Seventy percent of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents, and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced. A 1990 study by the Progressive Policy Institute showed that after controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared....

“But Americans used to be able to care about the circumstances of their children’s births: The illegitimacy rate has gone up by more than 300 percent since 1970. Moreover, even assuming that, sometime around the year of 1969, the entire human race lost the ability to defer gratification, there’s still the wholly volitional decision not to give the baby up for adoption.

In 1979, only about 600,000 babies were born out of wedlock and one quarter of them were put up for adoption. By 1991, the number of illegitimate births had doubled to 1,225,000 annually, but only 4 percent were allowed to be adopted — and most of those babies were snapped up by either Angelina Jolie or Mia Farrow. By 2003, 1.5 million illegitimate babies were born every year, but only about 14,000 of them, less than 1 percent, were put for adoption. Not surprisingly, unwed mothers who care enough to give their children up for adoption also come overwhelmingly from responsible backgrounds. They tend to have higher education and income levels and to come from intact upper-middle-class families with highly educated parents.

You will note that we do not read about adopted children filling up the prisons, welfare rolls, and runaway shelters. Adopted children are no worse off — and, indeed, are generally better off — than nonadopted children.”

sardis wrote:IB, you have a few good points hidden in your rants, but you have this uncontrollable urge to take them across the lines of lunacy in your arguments. When you are arguing a conservative point to liberals you can't use sources that start with "rightwingnews.com". Those sites are biased and even if the subject in them may be true no moderate to left individual will give any credibility in them. Slow your argument down and back up each point with statistics from accepted sources.

innocentbystander wrote:

sardis wrote:IB, you have a few good points hidden in your rants, but you have this uncontrollable urge to take them across the lines of lunacy in your arguments. When you are arguing a conservative point to liberals you can't use sources that start with "rightwingnews.com". Those sites are biased and even if the subject in them may be true no moderate to left individual will give any credibility in them. Slow your argument down and back up each point with statistics from accepted sources.

No leftwingnews is going to carry Ann Coulter. And only Ann Coulter has enough cajones to blame single moms for what has happened to our children. Only Ann Coulter has gathered the information in one nice, neat, effective, pile.

I have no choice. My argument stems from data that no liberal would print.

Gator by God's Grace wrote:does Ann Coulter even have any kids?

I thought she was a dyke.