The Culture of Rejection

By Vincent

A Heritage Foundation column on America's "Culture of Rejection" features some startling statistics: - In 1950, for every 100 babies born, only 12 experienced the rejection of their parents -- either through out-of-wedlock birth and their parents left, or because their parents divorced. In 2000, for every 100 born, it's 60. - For every 100 children conceived in the United States today, only 28 are going to reach 18 with mom and dad [still married]. The rest are going to experience rejection -- either the rejection of abortion or the rejection of their parents leaving. - Eighty percent of children currently living in poverty in single-parent households would be out of poverty immediately if their fathers were to marry their mothers. Scholar Patrick Fagan proposes that Americans reject the Culture of Rejection -- which includes divorce, parents who leave their children, and abortion -- and changing the country back to a Culture of Belonging. Read about it here....