How would you create an equivalent for extramarital parenting? SoCons have already tried any number of incentives to encourage marriage; AFAIK, they don't work. The problem is simply too deeply rooted; a lot of it comes from the lack of good jobs for poorly educated men, and our massive incarceration rate which renders thousands of men unemployable, and therefore unattractive as husbands, every year. It's all interconnected (with the economic factors traceable to the Enlightenment in different ways from the social ones), and only the relatively well-to-do are insulated from the general social rot. For now.
Society is either going to correct the perverse tendencies through massive reform at all levels, or the problem will be solved in a more Darwinian fashion. I suspect the real answer will be a mixture of both.
Society is either going to correct the perverse tendencies through massive reform at all levels, or the problem will be solved in a more Darwinian fashion. I suspect the real answer will be a mixture of both.
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