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Friday, March 22, 2013

WASHINGTON -- The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research.

David H. Autor, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that the difference between men and women, at least in part, may have roots in childhood. Only 63 percent of children lived in a household with two parents in 2010, down from 82 percent in 1970. The single parents raising the rest of those children are predominantly female. And there is growing evidence that sons raised by single mothers "appear to fare particularly poorly," Professor Autor wrote in an analysis for Third Way, a center-left policy research organization.

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Nature has a procreative system, for humans, that contains a mother and a father (a male and a female) for a reason.

There are important characteristics and qualities to learn from the parents of both sexes.

#1 | Posted by HeuristicGratis at 2013-03-22 09:50 AM | Reply | Flag:

There is a consistent contempt for men. I don't know if it's a new phenomenon or not. I'm part of a parenting board because I'm interested in learning to be the best father I can be. The participation is probably 99% women, and the way they talk about fathers is pretty depressing.

#2 | Posted by BruceBanner at 2013-03-22 11:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

"and the way they talk about fathers is pretty depressing."

well yeah. they sound like hard-core lefties. Of course, they sound depressing.

:-)

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2013-03-22 11:18 AM | Reply | Flag:

seriously.....the lack of fathers in homes have effects that stretch far and wide.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2013-03-22 11:19 AM | Reply | Flag:

Single parents tend to produce poor kids.

interesting.

#5 | Posted by Tor at 2013-03-22 11:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

"There is a consistent contempt for men. I don't know if it's a new phenomenon or not." - BruceBanner

No its not new, its only becoming more and more overt.

"I'm part of a parenting board because I'm interested in learning to be the best father I can be." - BruceBanner

You are being indoctrinated into the feminist methods of parenting. Just the conversation of the women in the board should tell you that. I suggest you avoid any sort of organized parenting. You are a man, you create order out of chaos with pain and pleasure, its in your DNA.

You will be a good father if you envision a future, create direction and order, towards that vision, using pain and pleasure.

Single parents tend to produce poor kids.
interesting.
#5 | POSTED BY TOR

I will take it a step further and step in the [...], single mothers tend to produce poor kids.

Why is that? Women can nurture to a certain age, after which the kids need to be exposed to the world, and trained to work within it. Women in general have a hard time doing that. This is why you have such great movies about single father trying to reconnect with their sons, trying to make them better men. I can't think of a movie where a mother tries to make her son a better man.

It would be like a cat trying to raise a dog... hows that going to work out? You get a dog that hates other dogs and doesn't chase cats.... welcome to the matrix take the red pill

#6 | Posted by AndreaMackris at 2013-03-22 11:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

#2 The reasons this is such, is due to the portrayal of men in television and movies. Always dopey, childish, and silly.

Why mean face contempt in real life, because men live out that stereotype in reality.

A sad culture.

#7 | Posted by HeuristicGratis at 2013-03-22 12:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Why men face contempt in real life, because men live out that stereotype in reality.

A sad culture.

#7 | Posted by HeuristicGratis.

In today's culture it seems way too many men are content with being nothing more in their child's life other than some part-time, so-called "baby daddy" who most times has no intentions of ever marrying the mother.

And many times you'll see the woman act as though she's actually proud to have 2-3 different "baby daddies" among her 4-5 kids. Progressives will mock any attitude except for "live and let live" and insist on today's society imposing no moral guidelines/structures whatsoever when it comes to family values and expectations. But too often it's the children who end up paying the price for it.

#8 | Posted by califchris at 2013-03-23 03:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Being divorced by a woman will set any guy back 20 years in life. Marriage is a very dangerous proposition for men, particularly in a declining economy which sets many women up for dissapointment, which they project onto their mate. In theory the law is neutral, but in practice any allegation against a man requires him to prove his innocence, an impossibility for anything except alimony & child support, even that will take months and the damage done cannot be ubdone. Whereas if you accuse a woman of anything you better have rock solid proof or face the Court's wrath. Even ten it will be shrugged off short of four or five hearings even if it is carefully documented. These hearings always cost more than they're worth. Its an incredibly sick for profit system which doesn't give a s**t about your children.

#9 | Posted by nutcase at 2013-03-23 04:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

First it was welfare from the left that drove a nail into the 2 parent black family; then it was feminism and the pussification of the American male that put the final nail into the male coffin---I don't know if we'll ever be able to resurrect the family and the male in our society.

#10 | Posted by matsop at 2013-03-23 04:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

" then it was feminism and the pussification of the American male that put the final nail into the male coffin-"

Oh we got another Internet macho man here. You poor thing. You get beat up a lot by girls in your childhood?

#11 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-23 04:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

#11 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-23 04:41 PM | Reply

Here, kittie, kittie, kittie.

#12 | Posted by matsop at 2013-03-23 04:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is nature not nuture.
Kids of single moms likely got their genes from low discipline dads. Big surprise that low discipline kids do poorly.

#13 | Posted by bored at 2013-03-24 02:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

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