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Study of Men’s Falling
Income Cites Single Parents

New York Times, by Binyamin Appelbaum

Original Article

Posted By:earlybird, 3/21/2013 7:58:26 PM

Washington — The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research. David H. Autor, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that the difference between men and women, at least in part, may have roots in childhood. (Snip) In this telling, the economic struggles of male workers are both a cause and an effect of the breakdown of traditional

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"A vicious cycle."

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Jiobaobubai, 3/21/2013 8:15:08 PM     (No. 9237609)

Once you destroy the foundation of family, the culture, society, and country will eventually all come apart.


Reply 2 - Posted by: GraniteBayTom, 3/21/2013 8:41:06 PM     (No. 9237647)

Even the NYT is beginning to see the obvious---lib policies don´t work.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: tomanderson61, 3/21/2013 10:00:52 PM     (No. 9237709)

Let me say what I have noticed from my personal, unofficial study.

A virtual explosion of women who DON´T want to work. I don´t mean "stay at home moms" who make a nice house and raise clean kids and cook great meals. No, I mean women who have this sense of entitlement and who don´t think they should do more than 50% (if that) of the housework while hubby works his butt off all day. Look at all the shows, everywhere you look, that promote this.

Not anti-woman at all, my wife works two jobs and is a published writer. We ALL work hard. But if you put all the work, and the kids and the housework on a guy, he will be limited on how far he can rise with those responsibilities, and his income will suffer. Not to mention the enormous alimonies paid out to, again, women who don´t want to work.

There´s your answer, no additional studies needed!


Reply 4 - Posted by: LadyVet, 3/21/2013 10:22:00 PM     (No. 9237745)

#3, that may be part of the problem. But what I´ve noticed with my children´s friends and with clients´ children is that males who are raised by females are not around men doing men´s work. They see females doing "women´s work" which generally is lower paying. So that is what is in their sights and range of experience when they start choosing a career. Single women have a hard time raising up engineers. I know that there will some accomplished women who have done it, but as a general rule that is strong enough to influence these types of statistics, single women raise men who go into the same kinds of jobs that they have seen their mothers do. And sometimes, that is no job at all.



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The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has permanently revoked the federal firearms license of East Windsor, Conn., gun store owner David LaGuercia, whose shop reportedly sold guns used in the Newtown school massacre and a second Connecticut mass shooting. ATF spokeswoman Deb Seifert told The Journal News on Thursday that she could not be more specific on the reasons LaGuercia’s license was revoked. It was revoked Dec. 20 and the 60-day time frame to appeal has expired.(Snip) In December, LaGuercia said in a statement that he was “absolutely appalled”

   

 

  


 
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