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Aurora Wrote: Aug 09, 2009 5:45 AM

Do these people really NOT get Coulter's point?! It's called sarcasm!! She's not REALLY suggesting people take up smoking... Yes I agree that some single mothers are very brave if their husbands left them and won't help with the children and now they are having to deal. But that's not usually the case. Most single mothers are single mothers because they slept around without thinking of the possible consequences. Maybe that sounds harsh but it's true. The high school I went to should have had a day care because of all the 14, 15, & 16 year old girls with children. And trust me, none were married....

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Secondhand Children

It's been weeks since the last one, so on Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured yet another cheery, upbeat article on single mothers. As with all its other promotional pieces on single motherhood over the years, the Times followed a specific formula to make this social disaster sound normal, blameless and harmless -- even brave.

These single motherhood advertisements include lots of conclusory statements to the effect that this is simply the way things are -- so get used to it, bourgeois America! "(A)n increasing number of unmarried mothers," the article explained, "look a lot more like Fran McElhill and Nancy...

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