Comments on: [US] Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2008/06/28/us-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/ About fathers and families, and the war against them. Mon, 21 May 2012 18:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: amyamster http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2008/06/28/us-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/#comment-15877 amyamster Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:56:32 +0000 http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2008/06/28/us-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/#comment-15877 <p>when looking for ...---snipped---</p> <p><strong>Response by F4L:</strong> You are not sticking to the rules. This is the third and last warning. If you try to post another comment that contains nothing but advertising and does not relate to the topic under discussion, you will be history at this blog. --Walter </p> when looking for …—snipped—

Response by F4L: You are not sticking to the rules. This is the third and last warning.

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]]> By: Walter Schneider http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2008/06/28/us-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/#comment-10927 Walter Schneider Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:45:46 +0000 http://blog.fathersforlife.org/2008/06/28/us-taxpayer-costs-of-divorce-and-unwed-childbearing/#comment-10927 Slowly but surely, the study report, “<a href="http://www.americanvalues.org/html/coff_mediaadvisory.htm" rel="nofollow">The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and All Fifty States</a>,” is increasingly being mentioned, or quoted from, in more and more newspaper stories (383 entries on the search-retrn list by google.com as of Sep. 12, 2008) in the USA and even overseas. The truths identified in the report will without a doubt leave their mark on changes in the direction of social trends. Take for example this story from the U.K.: <blockquote>Mail Online Researchers say couples who live together just don’t love each other as much as couples who marry… And Amanda Platell fears they may be right By Amanda Platell September 11, 2008 <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1054460/Researchers-say-couples-live-just-dont-love-couples-marry--And-Amanda-Platell-fears-right.html" rel="nofollow">Full Story</a></blockquote> That story does not specifically mention the study report, but it mentions one of the key findings of the report, the costs of marriage fragmentation, “estimated to have cost American taxpayers more than $1trillion in a decade.” <blockquote>As with most social trends, this one began across the Atlantic, where academics and politicians have been working together to fund programmes researching and supporting marriage for the greater good of the nation. Because make no mistake, this is not simply a moral revolution but a sound economic initiative. When 40 per cent or more of new marriages among the young will end in divorce and marriage breakdown is estimated to have cost American taxpayers more than $1trillion in a decade, there is a real imperative to promote successful marriages. </blockquote> Well, there it is, “a sound economic initiative” is what marriage as a social institution is and the culture of divorce and non-forming of marriage is not. Slowly but surely, the study report, “The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and All Fifty States,” is increasingly being mentioned, or quoted from, in more and more newspaper stories (383 entries on the search-retrn list by google.com as of Sep. 12, 2008) in the USA and even overseas.

The truths identified in the report will without a doubt leave their mark on changes in the direction of social trends.

Take for example this story from the U.K.:

Mail Online

Researchers say couples who live together just don’t love each other as much as couples who marry… And Amanda Platell fears they may be right

By Amanda Platell

September 11, 2008

Full Story

That story does not specifically mention the study report, but it mentions one of the key findings of the report, the costs of marriage fragmentation, “estimated to have cost American taxpayers more than $1trillion in a decade.”

As with most social trends, this one began across the Atlantic, where academics and politicians have been working together to fund programmes researching and supporting marriage for the greater good of the nation.

Because make no mistake, this is not simply a moral revolution but a sound economic initiative.

When 40 per cent or more of new marriages among the young will end in divorce and marriage breakdown is estimated to have cost American taxpayers more than $1trillion in a decade, there is a real imperative to promote successful marriages.

Well, there it is, “a sound economic initiative” is what marriage as a social institution is and the culture of divorce and non-forming of marriage is not.

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