Heard on NPR that this lady has created a program whereby single moms in America can now share a house with other single moms…Me being me, I could not but help compare our culture with their culture and suddenly after hearing this, the four marriage polygamy system in Islam doesn’t sound so bad after all…
According to this program, mothers who can’t afford to take care of their children and work to support a family can now move in with another single mother…Nothing wrong in that, but there would be no father figure for the children at all…What about all the camaraderie that comes from having a father for a boy? How would he fare living under two mothers?
I heard it about 3-4 days ago, so from what I remember of the interview with the creator of this program, almost 500 mothers have now moved in together…The key points from the interview with the lady being:
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The children are the responsibility of both the mothers, but in the upbringing, instilment of values and disciplining the child, the original mother would be the sole figure…
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In case one mother gets a boyfriend, the non-boyfriended mother would take care of the children should she go out on a date in serach of a prospective spouse thereby cutting the cost of a baby-sitter…
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Running of the household would be the responsibility of both mothers…
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More can be ascertained from their website here…
*A University of Chicago study found that in just 26 years the number of married couples with children decreased 71%, and the percent of adults who were married decreased from 75% to 56%, which is evidence of an absolutely shocking cultural implosion. At the same time, the number of unmarried households with no children increased 230%, the number of children in single-mother households increased 417%, and the number of children living with neither parent increased 1,440%. Only 51% of American children, or 36.4 million of them, lived with both parents, and 18.2%, or 13 million of them, lived with a single parent, in 1998. This left 31% of the nation’s children, or 22 million of them, living with neither parent.
The US Statistical Abstract, Table 76, confirms the figures from this study by using different terms and arriving at a similar figure for children who are not living with at least one parent. This table shows that 25.7 million children live in “two parent family groups”, and that 11.9 million live in single parent households, leaving 22.5 million children living with neither parent. 10 million of these 11.9 million children live in single-mother households where they are twenty times more likely to be fatally abused than children living with their families.
Don’t forget, not just the male child, but daughters also require a positive father figure in their lives. IF those children are coming from a household where they’ve seen their father slap their mother around, or come home intoxicated, then i think they are far far better living without such a “father” figure. Better to be surrounded by ten single women, than to see your father come home drunk at 3 in the morning and then proceed to punch your mother in the face.