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Bubba_Switzler
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Two articles from our friends at the New York Times essentially arguing that marriage is obsolete and good riddance.
nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.htmlIt used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/young-mothers-describe-marriages-fading-allure.htmlMany women described a lifestyle of dating in which relationships sometimes resulted in children, but less often in fathers deeply involved in their families. Judge David Basinski of Lorain County Domestic Relations Court, in Elyria, said he recently had a case in which a man who had nine children by six women owed $55,000 in back child support. Child support cases have become so common among unmarried parents that the court now gives seminars on parental responsibilities.