Without healthy families you can kiss the Great American Economy goodbye
Without healthy families you can kiss the Great American Economy goodbye
Family, church, and school are the three basic people-forming institutions, and they produce the best results when they cooperate
By Patrick Fagan
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/
April 19, 2013
Even if all the market reforms of the Washington think tanks, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes Magazine were enacted, we'd still need to kiss the Great American Economy goodbye. Below the level of economic policy lies a society that is producing fewer people capable of hard work, especially married men with children. As the retreat from marriage continues apace, there are fewer and fewer of these men, resulting in a slowly, permanently decelerating economy.
When men get married, their sense of responsibility and drive to provide gives them the incentive to work much harder. This translates into an average 27-percent increase in their productivity and income. With the retreat from marriage, instead of this "marriage premium," we get more single men (who work the least), more cohabiting men (who work less than married men), and more divorced men (who fall between the singles and cohabiters).
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Family, church, and school are the three basic people-forming institutions, and they produce the best results when they cooperate
By Patrick Fagan
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/
April 19, 2013
Even if all the market reforms of the Washington think tanks, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes Magazine were enacted, we'd still need to kiss the Great American Economy goodbye. Below the level of economic policy lies a society that is producing fewer people capable of hard work, especially married men with children. As the retreat from marriage continues apace, there are fewer and fewer of these men, resulting in a slowly, permanently decelerating economy.When men get married, their sense of responsibility and drive to provide gives them the incentive to work much harder. This translates into an average 27-percent increase in their productivity and income. With the retreat from marriage, instead of this "marriage premium," we get more single men (who work the least), more cohabiting men (who work less than married men), and more divorced men (who fall between the singles and cohabiters).
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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