On “Family Values”:

Proof that the Pro-Marriage lobby just makes shit up

Really? Single parent households cost us 112 billion dollars? Good thing they made me aware of this on tax day!

Seriously, this is bullshit. My favorite part is when the Institute for American Values, the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Families Northwest of Redmond, Washington, and the Georgia Family Council use an estimate of lost tax revenue as one of their estimates. There aren’t missing people who aren’t paying taxes. In fact, considering that married couples get tax breaks, we are probably making more money on people not getting married. Stupid.

How much do we pay for abstinence only sex-ed? $206 million according to the ACLU. Maybe we would have less out of wedlock children if we changed that. The real issue here isn’t if the pregnancy comes with a marriage; the issue is if the pregnncy is planned or not. How much money do we lose a year to poor families who really couldn;t afofrd another child but got pregnant and had one anyway? Unplanned pregnancies are much more likely to end up in a situation where welfare has to become involved. Marriage doesn;t fix that.

How does the government think that it is going to be able to support marriages? That’s asinine. Texas spends $15 million on marriage education. Now there is some tax money I wish my mom could get back.

The fact is that the wole framing of this article is unfiar. Single parents cost us $112 billion? That’s called the social saftey net and it’s been an integral part of every developed country since the turn of the last century. We need to take care of kids regardless of whether or not we think their parents made a bad decision. Furthermore, in there areticles there’s always some sort of assumption that children from these families will inevitably end up on the dole. Stupid