Study Suspect & Scewed

So its true, Focus on The Family and other special interest groups like them don't really care about the poor. They hate seeing how much money is spent on these lazy, slutty unwed mommies and their bastard children. They are also pissed about losing tax revenue cause the daddy is in prison and mom is on the couch watching Oprah.

Didn't Christ say there will always be the poor.
It's more about economics not supposed loose morality.

The minute I saw the sponsors of this so called marriage study, I knew the cost estimate was skewed.

Yes there is a problem, but making people go to religious based marriage counseling is unconstitutional.


I suspect the next step for these fundies is banning divorce outright or making it much more difficult. Besides, marriage and divorce in the bible was more about keeping the women in line and ensuring the children were legit.


Family.www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/04/15/fragmented.families.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers more than $112 billion a year, according to a study commissioned by four groups advocating more government action to bolster marriages.

Sponsors say the study is the first of its kind and hope it will prompt lawmakers to invest more money in programs aimed at strengthening marriages. Two experts not connected to the study said such programs are of dubious merit and suggested that other investments -- notably job creation -- would be more effective in aiding all types of needy families.

There have been previous attempts to calculate the cost of divorce in America. But the sponsors of the new study, being released Tuesday, said theirs is the first to gauge the broader cost of "family fragmentation" -- both divorce and unwed childbearing.
The study was conducted by Georgia State University economist Ben Scafidi. His work was sponsored by four groups who consider themselves part of a nationwide "marriage movement" -- the New York-based Institute for American Values, the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Families Northwest of Redmond, Washington, and the Georgia Family Council, an ally of the conservative ministry Focus on the Family.