Poverty and the Breakdown of the Family: Santorum Raises an Important Point

In Tuesday night's debate limited to the economy, former Senator Rick Santorum managed to raise the issue of the family and its role in the economy. He rightly argues that unless we recover the traditional family in our country, economic prosperity will be severely limited. Santorum offers an out of the park answer.  Poverty isn't just an economic solution, but one that must involve the family.

Here is his answer:

the biggest problem with poverty in America, and we don’t talk about here, because it’s an economic discussion — and that is the break down of the American family.

You want to look at the poverty rate among families that have two — that have a husband and wife working in them? It’s 5 percent today. A family that’s headed by one person? It’s 30 percent today. We need to do something, and we need to talk about economics. The home — the word “home” in Greek is the basis of the word “economy.” It is — it is the foundation of our country. We need to have a policy that supports families, that encourages marriage…


ROSE: All right.


SANTORUM: … that has fathers take responsibility for their children. You can’t have limited government — you can’t have a wealthy society if the family breaks down, that basic unit of society. And that needs to be included in this economic discussion.

I couldn't have said it better myself.  We are fools to think that we can have economic prosperity all the while suffering through and encouraging the destruction and break down of the family.  Government can never replace Dad.  And chickified men can never replace a real man in the home.


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