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Purplehood wrote:

baldeagle wrote:http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/ ... abeeb?pg=1

This story will tear your heart out, both because these children's deaths are being ignored and because you'll know the reason why.

I am confused by the thread title and the gist of the article. I don't see it as immorality but as the lack of guidance from a Father-figure. That guidance, when positive,covers so much more than just what is moral and what is not.

A moral man raises his children properly. An immoral man leaves them and ignores them. Morality IS taking responsibility for those that you father. Does that help?

Apples and oranges. You will always have bad people and bad parents. But the government changed the equation in the '60s and now we're reaping the whirlwind. Instead of bad people and bad parents we have entire families and generations of families that are bad. The problems we have now were created by government and are more endemic and will be much, much harder to solve.

packa45 wrote:What was this going on about? ... Every person makes choices in life... Those choices make up who we are...that will never change... Unless the person looks into who they really are and wants to change.

While all this is true, it still ignores the thrust of the argument. As TAM points out, when fathers are missing, society suffers. That's a fact. We can find thousands of anecdotes to "refute" that fact, but there are millions of lives being destroyed that prove it's true.

Fatherless homes are an invention of our liberal government policies. When you teach, verbally, by example and with laws, that the government will take care of you, some people will listen and believe it. And the lives they live will impact a greater circle than just their immediate family. When the government says to a pregnant woman, don't worry about the father, we'll take care of you, they are encouraging fatherless "homes". And those homes will destroy (and are destroying) the country more assuredly than any war. They have decimated the black family.

That's why welfare is wrong, why abortion is wrong, why sex education in schools is wrong, why affirmative action is wrong, why so many government programs are wrong. Not because they aren't well intentioned. They may be. But the outcomes of those programs destroy society. If anyone can look around them and not see that America is being destroyed from within, that person is either blind or willfully ignorant.

cheezit wrote:sorry if i missed something. when involved in gangs which are a well knowen part of the drug and major crime problems there and in most metro area's you get what you get. that life will lead to either a quick death or a life in jail. what bothers me is the spill over that takes the lifes of the good upstanding people in the comunities

Yeah, you missed something. Kids get involved in gangs because they don't have fathers that steer them in the right direction. Did you read the whole article? Including the part about the elephants?

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This story will tear your heart out, both because these children's deaths are being ignored and because you'll know the reason why.