Today was the last family party of the Christmas holiday season. The kids go back to school on Monday and everybody else starts their diets to scrape away all the fat we’ve absorbed since Thanksgiving. And it has been a fun season. What with the Trump election win and the gob-smacked silence of the leftist crazies there has been a veritable aura of peace and calm. Well, relatively speaking anyway. After all you can’t eliminate terrorist attacks and brutal war news completely. But all in all, the last month and a half has been pretty nice.
So, two weeks from Tuesday Donald Trump will be sworn in. As is his way, his every word and deed will stir up a hornet’s nest of outrage in the establishment media and political communities. He will be fought tooth and nail every step of the way in courts, in Congress and in the agencies, he is attempting to reform or destroy.
Well, that will be a long story. The coming months will tell us if he can make any headway in ending illegal immigration through deportations and border security. And his other reform goals will take just as long to implement.
But tonight, I was just trying to put into perspective where our society is and where it has to go if we’re to last as a nation. And I would say the most unsettling problem is the current baby drought. Specifically native-born American women are not having children at replacement rates. Now, why is that? Currently the blame game ping pongs back and forth between blaming young men and young women. But I would say the true culprit is the culture that has enabled a world view by young people that includes the following “facts”:
- Women are better off in careers than as mothers.
- Employers should prefer hiring women rather than men, especially white men.
- There are too many people on planet Earth.
- Bringing children into this world is a crime.
- A middle-class lifestyle that allows for the raising of children is no longer within the reach of young adults.
Looking at all these statements I see a dystopian version of the world. The only statement there that has any basis in fact is the last one and that situation needs to be rectified by our government if they hope to prevent this country from disintegrating into a sad, hollowed-out vestige of the dynamic, prosperous place it was a century ago.
To do this, each of those “facts” needs to be refuted and policies enacted to reverse the opinions and their effects that are currently laying waste to our society at all levels.
The first change needed is to convince young women that getting married and staying home to raise a large family is the most valuable and meaningful “career” they can have. This is the key change that makes restoration of our society possible. And the only way these young women can be convinced is for the government to put in place policies that subsidize couples forming and sustaining families. Specifically, the policies should specify that men must remain employed and women must remain at home during the childhood years of their children. Ideally these mothers should stay home until their children move out at eighteen years of age. After that, mothers moving into the workforce shouldn’t be too detrimental to family life. Although I wouldn’t force them to go.
Now this idea is anathema to modern feminist views. That isn’t surprising since feminism is anathema to family life. But it is absolutely vital to maintaining the health of the nation that women be convinced to resume their place in the home; not as part-time mothers of latch-key children but as moms.
We also have to correct divorce-on-demand without fault. That is one of the biggest issues, along with single mother households. The prisons are chock-a-block with criminals raised in single mother households. 70%, I read, of the prison population come from single mother households.
I think federal programs that monetarily support two parent households will tend to do that. It will add a financial incentive to the moral impulse to “stay together for the sake of the kids.”