Single-Mothers Statistics and Single Motherhood

Here are the lat­est fig­ures on the effects of fem­i­nism on dat­ing, mar­riage, and rais­ing chil­dren in the United States:

The num­ber of chil­dren born out­side mar­riage in the United States has increased dra­mat­i­cally to four out of ten of all births.

Fig­ures show that 41 per cent of chil­dren born in 2008 did not have mar­ried par­ents — up from 28 per cent in 1990…

The study also found that in Amer­ica there is a declin­ing num­ber of teenage moth­ers and ris­ing num­bers of older parents…

The U.S. research, taken from cen­sus reports and health sta­tis­tics by the Pew Research Cen­tre, also out­lines a trend of cou­ples in west­ern soci­eties mar­ry­ing later in life and delay­ing par­ent­hood until they can afford it.

In 1990 only 9 per cent of births were to women 35 years and older and 13 per cent were to teenagers, but by 2008 10 per cent of births were to teenagers and 14 per cent were to older women.

‘The demog­ra­phy of moth­er­hood in the U.S. has shifted strik­ingly in the past two decades,’ the report said.

It’s that hard to see the rea­son. The unin­tended con­se­quences of fem­i­nism have had neg­a­tive effects — in addi­tion to the pos­i­tive ones — that have taken a few gen­er­a­tions to present themselves.

As I wrote in an essay on fem­i­nism and mod­ern dat­ing, the fem­i­nism move­ment eased the stigma on pre­mar­i­tal sex and unwed moth­ers, allow­ing women to behave like men at the worst — sleep­ing around, hook­ing up, and delay­ing seri­ous relationships.

Even with the wide­spread use of birth con­trol, the fact remains that the longer a woman is sin­gle and sex­u­ally active, the more likely it is that she will become preg­nant. And if a woman becomes preg­nant in her late twen­ties or thir­ties by acci­dent or “acci­den­tally on pur­pose,” she will be less likely to abort the preg­nancy when her mater­nal instincts tell her that this might be her only chance to have a child. So, increased sex­ual activ­ity and delay­ing mar­riage nat­u­rally result in more out-of-wedlock births. And such chil­dren tend to do worse in life.

A corol­lary to this state of soci­ety is the fact that more men are under­stand­ably hes­i­tant of mar­riage as a result of see­ing our parent’s gen­er­a­tion divorce at a high rate, know­ing that they will lose half of their assets in the fifty-fifty chance of a divorce, and enjoy­ing a life of hook­ing up with twen­tysome­thing girls.

The longer that women delay seri­ous rela­tion­ships, mar­riage, and fam­i­lies, the worse it becomes for them­selves as well as soci­ety in gen­eral. And the longer that both men and women do so, the harder it will become to con­ceive — and the greater the chance that their chil­dren will be born with phys­i­cal or men­tal dis­or­ders since eggs and sperm start dete­ri­o­rate in a person’s late twenties.

Roissy in D.C. — now call­ing him­self Cit­i­zen Rene­gade — reacts to this news in his usual blunt, pro­fane, but usually-accurate way:

It’s all been so pre­dictable, yet our Kom­mis­ars of Kul­tural Kor­rect­ness couldn’t see what was hap­pen­ing right before their eyes, or they could but didn’t care. The for­mula is simple:

Divest sex from preg­nancy + finan­cially empower women, thus devalu­ing men’s mate attract­ing provider abil­ity + incen­tivize divorce for women + dis­in­cen­tivize mar­riage for men + remove the slut and sin­gle mom social sham­ing mech­a­nisms + end­less dat­ing + fer­til­ity treat­ment + gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate welfare

=

More sin­gle women in their most attrac­tive fer­tile years avail­able for plun­der­ing. More divorce court ass rap­ings for men. More bas­tard chil­dren. Less mar­riage. Later mar­riage. Later births. Fewer life­time births. And an alpha cock carousel that spins relent­lessly until soci­ety crum­bles under the weight of declin­ing pro­duc­tive native pop­u­la­tion, ris­ing orc horde pop­u­la­tions, and wild­ings by all those father­less bas­tard boys raised by empow­ered sin­gle moms.

It’s a sad state of affairs. As Vox Day notes on the same article:

I pay far less atten­tion to the whys and where­fores of the fem­i­nist utopia than oth­ers who rec­og­nize its destruc­tive, dystopian nature, but my back­ground in eco­nom­ics has given me the abil­ity to see how just how frag­ile is the foun­da­tion that momen­tar­ily sup­ports it.

Roissy sum­ma­rizes the pos­si­ble out­comes in the long-term:

Either Amer­i­can soci­ety implodes, or the com­ing gen­er­a­tions of Mil­len­ni­als and younger utterly turn their back on the val­ues of their par­ents and grand­par­ents, giv­ing a big one fin­ger salute to the dying Baby Boomers and their pro­gres­sivist equal­ism lies and return­ing the coun­try back to the cul­tural con­fig­u­ra­tion that once brought it to majes­tic heights.

As I wrote in a prior post pre­dict­ing the return of mod­est cloth­ing, I believe that my gen­er­a­tion — or, most likely, the one after mine — will real­ize the cul­tural dam­age that Baby Boomers have wreaked on Amer­i­can soci­ety.

I just hope it will not be too late. Look­ing at the cur­rent demo­graphic pro­jec­tions — and, specif­i­cally, who is hav­ing more chil­dren and who is not — I fear that the future depicted in the cult-film “Idioc­racy” will not be too far off.