The rise of the single parent

Almost 25% of children in Britain are being raised by a single parent, the Telegraph reports. The problem is found particularly among blacks, where approximately 50% of children are raised in this manner. At the same time, fewer than 37% of all "families" actually consist of what I would think of as being a family: mother, father, and children.

Of course, such an unfortunate situation is sometimes unavoidable. Sometimes one parent dies, and sometimes a feckless father will simply walk out on his wife and children. But, while many single parents are very good parents, no one can pretend that this is the ideal situation. Children raised by single mothers (the more common kind of single parent) are more likely to be raised in poverty, to suffer physical and mental health problems, to fail at school, and, ultimately, to become criminals or single parents themselves. Perhaps if the black community in particular did not have so many absent fathers, we would not see so many children being murdered by their peers.

The decline of the family is yet another effect of the destruction of traditional values by the left. They have taught that being raised by a drugged-up lesbian single mother is just as good as being raised by a mother and a father. Indeed, possibly better, since it's 'diverse'. They have attacked the institution of marriage, encouraging people to have children out of wedlock, despite the fact that non-marital relationships are more less durable than marital ones. And they have encouraged some deeply selfish women to deliberately have children on their own, without a father. The victims of all this are the children themselves. But, once again, the leftists are prepared to sacrifice the futures of the nation's children, in order to make themselves feel warm and fuzzy, secure in the knowledge that they've promoted 'diversity'.