The End of Marriage
Of most interest to me, "Despite the reluctance of Scandinavian social scientists to study the consequences of family dissolution for children, we do have an excellent study that followed the life experiences of all children born in Stockholm in 1953. (Not coincidentally, the research was conducted by a British scholar, Duncan W.G. Timms.) That study found that regardless of income or social status, parental breakup had negative effects on children's mental health. Boys living with single, separated, or divorced mothers had particularly high rates of impairment in adolescence. An important 2003 study by Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, et al. found that children of single parents in Sweden have more than double the rates of mortality, severe morbidity, and injury of children in two parent households. This held true after controlling for a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic circumstances."
Another quite obvious result of this trend, about which liberals will no doubt hoot and jeer, is that a culture whose birth rates and social fabric are this weak cannot help but fall to the strong influence of a culture with a higher birth rate and stronger social mores and folkways. In Europe, there can be little doubt that this culture is broadly going to be Muslim. I know Muslim's who've lived in England who state large swaths of the cityscape are simply devoid of Europeans, and they are openly proud of their own unique heritage and the way in which they are more or less sweeping away the original inhabitants.
I'd be interested to know how Sweden specifically is dealing with this. I know from the book Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that immigration from Muslim nations at least in the Netherlands is relatively steady.
What people do not, I think, understand commonly is that the face of Islam in the west is not that of the raving extremist. They are, like many of the minorities from afar, hard working and professional. This does not change the fact that the underlying culture is not at all conducive to democratic governance, nor is the society as peaceful and serene as the general presentation of its proponents. Again, I can recommend the book I mentioned earlier, Infidel, by Ayaan Ali.
This road we are jogging down is not the innocent little side trail we are being led to believe, in my opinion.
Of most interest to me, "Despite the reluctance of Scandinavian social scientists to study the consequences of family dissolution for children, we do have an excellent study that followed the life experiences of all children born in Stockholm in 1953. (Not coincidentally, the research was conducted by a British scholar, Duncan W.G. Timms.) That study found that regardless of income or social status, parental breakup had negative effects on children's mental health. Boys living with single, separated, or divorced mothers had particularly high rates of impairment in adolescence. An important 2003 study by Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, et al. found that children of single parents in Sweden have more than double the rates of mortality, severe morbidity, and injury of children in two parent households. This held true after controlling for a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic circumstances."
Another quite obvious result of this trend, about which liberals will no doubt hoot and jeer, is that a culture whose birth rates and social fabric are this weak cannot help but fall to the strong influence of a culture with a higher birth rate and stronger social mores and folkways. In Europe, there can be little doubt that this culture is broadly going to be Muslim. I know Muslim's who've lived in England who state large swaths of the cityscape are simply devoid of Europeans, and they are openly proud of their own unique heritage and the way in which they are more or less sweeping away the original inhabitants.
I'd be interested to know how Sweden specifically is dealing with this. I know from the book Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that immigration from Muslim nations at least in the Netherlands is relatively steady.
What people do not, I think, understand commonly is that the face of Islam in the west is not that of the raving extremist. They are, like many of the minorities from afar, hard working and professional. This does not change the fact that the underlying culture is not at all conducive to democratic governance, nor is the society as peaceful and serene as the general presentation of its proponents. Again, I can recommend the book I mentioned earlier, Infidel, by Ayaan Ali.
This road we are jogging down is not the innocent little side trail we are being led to believe, in my opinion.
