Some women just want to be mothers, protested a diffident Barbara Walters--and they can afford to do so.
Of course most people know by now that Coulter devotes an entire chapter in her new book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America" to single motherhood.
It is called "Victim of a Crime? Thank a Single Mother" and contends that the selfishness of single mothers in pursuing motherhood without a mate virtually assures harm to the child and society.
Seventy percent of state prison inmates, 63 percent of suicides, 71 percent of drug abusers and 90 percent of the homeless and runaways were raised by single mothers, writes Coulter. Moreover, only six and a half percent of single mothers are widows and thirty-seven percent divorced. (We have a term for "Children of divorce," writes Coulter, "I call them, future strippers.")
That means forty-one percent of single mothers get pregnant out of wedlock--which unlike "catching the flu," says Coulter, requires acts of volition.
Unfortunately, Coulter is probably right.
Freakonomics whiz kid Steven Levitt came to similar conclusions when he found that US crime dropped by 50 percent exactly 18 years after abortion, 81 percent of which affects single women, was legalized in the 1970s. In fact, the earliest legalizing states showed the earliest declines in crime.
Statistics show fatherless children tend to fail academically, professionally and at marriage. Many carry debilitating guilt from the single mother's lopsided, sometimes martyred devotion and their spouse-like role in the family so that marrying, dating and even getting a life feels like "cheating" on Mom, say therapists.
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