“Intact Families, Continued: The Red-County Advantage” is a July 1, 2015 New York Times article about the tendency of people who are living the 1950s American lifestyle (children living in a home with both parents) to vote Republican.
When interviewing legislators for realworlddivorce.com we never could get a clear answer for their rationale in making quick marriages and divorces, or one-night encounters leading to childbirth, potentially so much more lucrative than going to college and working. Why offer $40,000 per year tax-free for 23 years (Massachusetts) for having a child with a $250,000 (pre-tax) per year earner? Why would collecting child support in about half of U.S. states potentially pay 10-30X more than providing a home to a foster child? Researchers Brinig and Allen (see “These Boots are Made for Walking” and their follow-on papers) found that these incentives encourage the filing of divorce lawsuits. Aside from divorce litigators, judges, and psychologists who are paid witnesses in court, who could have an interest in encouraging that?
This Times article explains that it is in fact rational for one political party to encourage divorces and out-of-wedlock childbirth.
There are several ways of looking at the Democrat Party, which all amount to roughly the same thing : The Coalition of the Fringes, The Coalition of People who the only thing they have in common is that they they hate white males, esp. if they are Christian or The Coalition of People who want the government to give them free stuff and/or a job that doesn’t require a lot of hard work but has nice benefits, or for the government to require third parties to give them said free stuff or job. It’s a real problem in a democracy if said coalitions add up to 50%+1 of the population.
The parties are increasingly split, where the Republicans are the party of whites, marrieds, Christians, and taxpayers, while the Democrats are the non-whites, unmarrieds, non-Christians, and parasites. So yes, destroying the family is to the political advantage of the Democrats.
How about involuntary one-night encounters. A blogger elsewhere described being handed a drink by a co-worker and waking up in her home with no memory of what happened, only to be told 3 months later than she was pregnant with his child. She could have easily predicted when she was ovulating with the drug store kits. A twenty something has a 1 in 3 chance of pregnancy if the time is right. She could have slipped him a “date rape” drug and let nature take its course, with DNA evidence of paternity. Certainly, any man should think twice before allowing a women of child bearing age to buy him a drink that he does not see the bartender pour in front of him and hand directly to him.