Thread: Recession Is Destroying The American Family

In the March, 2010 issue of Atlantic Monthly, assistant managing editor Dan Peck has an article about how the recession is transforming America.

One of his troubling points is that unemployment which lasts more than six months can have severe long term consequences. He also says that unemployed men don't marry, but do continue to father children and that children of unstable families are more likely to have problems in school.

We're all familiar with the problems in dysfunctional black neighborhoods. Peck says that the unemployment which afflicts blacks is now spreading to whites and that we'll be seeing more white kids turning to selling drugs, because they can't get a job.

The weight of this recession has fallen most heavily upon men, says Peck, because they've suffered approximately three-quarters of the 8 million job losses since the beginning of 2008. Male-dominated industries - construction, finance, and manufacturing - have been particularly hard-hit, while sectors that disproportionately employ women - education, health care - have held up relatively well. (In one sense, this recession has merely intensified a long-term trend.)

This causes problems at home, because women expect men to be breadwinners, even if the women themselves are working.

A National Journal poll of November, 2009, shows that white men are particularly anxious about their future and alienated by the government.

The full article is online here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... erica/7919

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And still 'Bama Quisling wants a framework for legalizing illegals!

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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade

Yep, what I said before. We're being systimatically torn apart at the core. The family unit.