The proportion of mothers who are unmarried is at 40 percent, up from five percent in 1960; two-thirds of first births to women under 30 are to unwed women. Determining why out-of-wedlock pregnancy and birth has spiked is the subject of a new report, released Monday, from the Social Capital Project.
The Social Capital Project (SCP), spearheaded by Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) is an ongoing project of Congress's Joint Economic Committee to measure the breakdown in what Lee and others talk about as "associational life" in America. That refers to the institutions—churches, schools, teams, and other civic organizations—which connect Americans and mediate between the individual and the state.
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I doubt most millennials could tell you what a shotgun wedding was back in the day.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that this was in the headlines.
DeleteI remember too the observation of: the baby arrived on time, it was just the marriage that was late.
ReplyDeleteA father tosses a shot gun shell to his daughter's date. He reminds the young man that it travels MUCH faster after 10PM.
One of the side benefits of the shotgun wedding days was that the new bride also had brother(s) and cousins enough to let the new husband that there would be consequences if he thought being the man of the house gave him the right to slap his wife around or to beat the children. And the clear understanding/expectation; the new husband and father would do what ever he had to do to support his new family. The "or else" did not have to be said. You just knew.
there would be consequences if he thought being the man of the house gave him the right to slap his wife around or to beat the children.
DeleteReminds me somewhat of Fried Green Tomatoes.
Among the many problems that plague our society, could this, at least in part, be a result of the debauchment of the Biblical meaning of marriage by the courts? For if the Holy institution can be applied to any and everything does it not loose it's value in the eyes of most? And in the end, wasn't that the goal?
ReplyDeleteY'all have a nice day.
Indeed.
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