Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

“THE TERRIFYING IMPACT OF SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS” – Melissa Kearney
“Kearney is a University of Maryland professor of economics, and an author known for her research in the field of economic demography.”
VIA: Chris Willamson Interview

Via Kearney:
– We need to surface this…

“THE TERRIFYING IMPACT OF SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS” – Melissa Kearney
“Kearney is a University of Maryland professor of economics, and an author known for her research in the field of economic demography.”
VIA: Chris Willamson Interview

Via Kearney:
– We need to surface this issue. The academy is doing harm by avoiding and counter-signaling the problem of single parenting.
– Having a two-parent household is another powerful advantage to children throughout life.
– We have seen extraordinary mental and social problems out of single-parent (mother) homes.
– We have seen a rapid decline in marriage and an increase in unmarried mothers. This gives us the illusion of static divorce rates.
– 40% of children in the US are born outside of marriage. It’s 70-80% among blacks.
– So, there is a decline in marriage and a decoupling of marriage from childbearing.
– Oddly, teen childbearing is down 70% from the 1990s. !!!
– The college-educated class continued to stay married and raise kids. So 80% of white kids from those families are still in two-parent families.
– Single motherhood is 12% with 4 year college degree, vs half in those without, and holds true across most ethnic groups – though far better for Asians, and far worse for blacks.
– While originally a college-educated movement (divorce), the tendency of educated people to divorce into single-parent households has spread to the uneducated classes, and they are now equal in single parenting.
– The economic shocks against non-college-educated men has hit them the hardest, and this is why the economic value of marriage has evaporated. (War on men by taking men for granted).
– For this reason, among young mothers, children are a preference over marriage. So women are making the rational choice to do it all on what they make, without a man to compromise with.
– Likewise, (as a man) when you can afford a younger woman who will not make you compromise on everything (or argue or nag or complain), then you choose the same as women do.
– Marriage has lost its… utility. Despite that people aren’t saying they don’t want to be married. It’s that people can’t make it happen – because the relationship and the economics don’t work.

COMMENTS
CD: As I’ve said, this is easy to fix because it’s just economy and incentives. Part of the reason I want to throw child support on the state is to “bankrupt” it so to speak into adopting necessary policy.

–“In 2017, the aggregate expected amount of child support for receipt was $30 billion, and (only) 62% of that amount was actually received, averaging $3,431 per custodial parent”–

We could close the department of education, which costs $30B for nothing good at all, add another 20B from any other department, and pull all those suffering men out of child support, and women out of conflict over it.
– Going forward the parent keeping the child pays for the child.
– Alimony for either party must not exceed the years.
– Community property must come to an end (it is by not-marrying anyway).
– Then restore liability for interference in a marriage such that it is devastating to do so.
– Then continue to repatriate business into the continent from afar.
– Then eliminate income taxes on ‘labor’ meaning men who work with their hands, and accumulate physical cellular damage from their work.
– Then convert to the Singapore model for social security, health care, and unemployment.