Unwed parents are being seduced into wedlock by a New York writer fighting to reverse an anti-marriage trend.
Author Maryann Reid is tempting couples with kids to take the plunge in a high-profile, all-expenses paid event - called Marry Your Baby Daddy Day.

She is looking for 10 couples who will tie the knot in an effort to halt a trend that, she claims, has 70% of black parents living outside wedlock.

"Everybody in the African-American community knows a baby mama or a baby daddy," she said, using slang terms to refer to single parents.

"It's almost become trendy in the black community to have children out of wedlock. I know women who feel discomfort about talking about marriage, as though this 'baby mama' stuff is the norm. It's embarrassing.

"I wanted to get the message out there that marriage is a good thing, that we should be increasing the amount of two-parent households.

"I want to turn baby mamas into wives."


http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/268581p-230021c.html

Thanks for the post Brother Pan. This ideal proposed in this article is making mockery of a real phenomenon in our community. Many of these so-called “daddy-babies” have children by more than one “baby mama” and many “baby mamas” have more than one father of their children. Unfortunately, most of these acts of copulation, that produced these “mama and daddy baby’s”, were sophomoric at best and I think a purposeful approach toward the development of marriage and family should be based on more grounded cultural principles than just a superfluous make-over, a one-time good meal and a vacation.

I can’t see how this could appeal to anybody but the naïve, the spiritually immature and the foolish.


Peace

Brother Sun

this something many will fine goodness in as well some that will vent for the glamor
a good concept to join handz and less the number of single parenting thankz for sharing
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