Social Scientists Find Traditional Marriage a Cure for Poverty
While many Americans who take the traditional Judeo-Christian values of America seriously have extolled the virtues of a happy marriage, economists and social scientists — many of them studying the situation from a secular point of view — are now coming to the same conclusion. These experts agree that single parenting accounts for much of modern poverty. Robert Lerman of the Urban Institute, for instance, believes that unmarried status accounts for 40 percent of the poverty in single-parent families.
Statistics show that married men tend to work harder and make more money than unmarried men. Dr. Bradford Wilcox of the National Marriage Project explains,
[Married men] work about 160 hours more compared to their similarly credentialed peers after they transition into marriage in that first year of married life. Men who get married and stay married tend to be better workers. They work harder, they...
6. Marriage (Primary Symbiosis) Marriage is one of the most important parts of human primary symbiosis. A. Origin Marriage was originated after biological evolution progressed from asexual propagation to sexual one. It is so because the sexual propagation can cope with all kinds of difficulties much easier than the asexual one. B. Definition Biologically speaking, marriage is one whole bio-entity or co-body consisting of a couple of husband and wife. This couple is integrated spiritually in order to keep both their DNA alive in their offspring's body ---- a better new carrier for keeping their DNA alive than both old individuals of the husband and wife. That is why a marriage couple sleeps in a bed and works as close together as possible. Also, this is where the kiss, embrace, and etc. come from. C. Properties ..."
(From W. Ying; "Be Happy Validly!" p. 19, CreateSpace, Amazon, 2012)
It would be worth coming home, even to a poor home, if you have a good helpmate, by having a The Virtuous Wife and Mother, working with and beside you, and not against you. This type of package rarely comes beautifully wrapped and with a huge dowry. Those gifts, with worldly attractions might not be from God.
Doug Greeley | 3/15/2009
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