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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 03:09 PM

  "The infanticide lobby"

  Oh please. I've noticed lately that there are men dying in Iraq who leave behind one or more kids and a "fiancee". That must be because they are waiting for that big, elaborate wedding when they get home. Or something.

  There is a disturbing trend against marriage in this society. I firmly believe it has to do with our economy and the fear that long-term relationships are going to be tedious with multiple jobs and economic hopelessness.

  Or perhaps women are letting men get away with irresponsibility? No, I think it is that they have nothing economically at stake together.

  The abortion part of the equation is simply part and parcel of the same picture. I agree that even with a college education, a young woman might opt for it, feeling her prospects are slim to none with a child in tow. After all, child care is paid about as well as many a job she could have. It would take all of her pay.

  I feel there is a drift going on. Maybe shotgun marriages in Alaska are more healthy. I just don't know. Or maybe the Palin family is thinking they are going to strike it rich in politics. Stranger things have happened, but it isn't a course available to most of us.

  I have three children. The last two were born in wedlock. I don't know where the first one is. I never considered an abortion.

  —musings Read musings's other letters
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