Salon.com: What do you see as the most pressing problem in the inner city today (Jan, 2001)?
The parenting problem. A lot of minorities have such a problem with the single-parent situation. The parents are the single most important influence on a child, followed by education and the peer group. The number of single parents in the U.S. has quadrupled since the '60s, and there has also been an increase in violence and school shootings. All that stuff has increased largely because of a lack of parenting, and many households only have one biological parent -- so many of them are fatherless. It really creates a big problem.
I would certainly not want to try to raise a child by myself, when I see how hard it is even for two people.
Posted by: lillianjane | May 17, 2011 at 02:15 PM
Well, no one's accusing Arnold of being a deadbeat or even an absentee father to this child. Shriver backed up the Gropinator when the two of them were gunning for the governorship and he tacitly admitted to groping numerous women, which is a crime of sexual assault. Not the most sympathetic of wronged wives, on the face of it.
Posted by: Hypatia | May 17, 2011 at 02:33 PM
Yeah, he did right by the woman, sort of. Course, he can afford to.
Posted by: John Petty | May 17, 2011 at 04:10 PM
Yes, he could afford it, and of course it would have been dangerous not to do so, even if the tabloids are interested only in Democratic sex scandals.
Posted by: Hypatia | May 17, 2011 at 05:43 PM
At least he was a devout enough catholic not to use a condom for his philandering.
Posted by: lillianjane | May 18, 2011 at 01:12 PM
Yes, LJ, there is that.
Posted by: John Petty | May 20, 2011 at 12:02 PM