Posted by
Chris Lee Reyes on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:14:42 AM
Reasons to prevent illegitimate births
By Chris Lee Reyes
So the fetus of an unbeliever forms. Over time, it will grow to be a big fat Gerber baby. Then, later, an adorable child—with edgy mannerisms.
Soon thereafter, she might take up recreational sports. Feeling indifferent and over-used, she develops an inferiority complex. Then, as a troubled teen with serious acne issues, she’ll turn to under-aged snorkeling and rap music.
When she reaches young adulthood, she’ll yearn to be free and liberated; moving to Los Angeles to live with a performance artist named "Franz
." She’ll take the bus home, and become the number one ranked Hooters girl in all of Southern California.
She will get married, divorced, and then married again. Then in her late 40s, she will open an Irish pub near Pillow Creek, Utah. Shortly after, she will divorce again due to multiple love affairs --one with her Guatemalan roof inspector —Antonio— and the other with a presidential candidate.
After much controversy, and death threats, she relocates to sunny Florida.
Considering suicide, she then turns to environmental activism, and begins taking online courses for a Forestry certificate at Broward Community College.
Almost instantaneously, she gets introduced to the South Beach Diet and gets a $60 liposuction behind a dumpster in Little Havana, to feel young again.
On holidays (Earth Day, Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl) her daughter from the first marriage will show up ,with pictures of her honor-student child and PhD diploma in Eastern Religion from Princeton, to argue how "she ruined her life by stealing Antonio from her."
After long struggles in addiction to opium, fudge cakes and Yoga, she replaces her agnosticism for full-pledged atheism. Then shortly after, she changes her mind about religion, and joins the church of Scientology pastored by Tom Cruise. After three weeks, she quits, and joins the Richard Dawkins’ God Delusion Book Club and subscribes to the Dali Lama’s weekly newsletter.
Then one night, when she’s especially wasted after clubbin’ on South Beach (while pretending to be a 27-year-old mortgage consultant from Brazil) she drives into the Atlantic Ocean and dies.
This, of course, is the life cycle of an "Oops Baby." In fact, this occurs 9/10 of the time—according to my estimates (using a scientific calculator, metric ruler, and spark notes from Harry Potter).
But seriously now, let’s get focused. I’m sure at this point you may be asking "What in the world is an "Oops Baby?" and what’s with the mellow-dramatic screenplay?
The reality is I can’t really explain the nuclear holocaust of creativity that goes in my head
, so therefore I can’t explain the latter, but the former, however, is an issue that needs to be addressed immediately, and on more conventional terms.
"Oops babies," for the lack of a better term, is my pathological diagnosis for specific types of illegitimately-born children that live by the "everything goes you only live once" worldview. This specific type of illegitimately-born child will more than likely grow up to have an intolerant humanistic worldview driven by militant atheism, and suffer from inferiority complex, lack of judgment, and family-value deprivation (another of my coined terms).
Thankfully, most illegitimately-born children turn out fine, to the world’s standards. And although the more extreme versions of illegitimately-born children--"Oops Babies"—are the basis of the narrative you just read, the rapid rate of normal illegitimacy, in general, tarnishes the traditional concept of the family institution too, and has subsequently created a slew of issues in the American socio-cultural landscape.
When the socialization process of a child occurs without a stable father and/or mother in place, the results are frightening. Granted, not every child automatically becomes the next O.J. Simpson, Hanibal Lector, Joseph Stalin, or failed Dancing with the Stars contestant, but, it’s a discrepancy that may be avoided by means of traditional intervention rather than liberated social thought.
The National Center for Health Statistics reported that there were almost 6.4 million pregnancies.45 percent were to women who were not married, and there were 1.22 million abortions and 1.06 million stillbirths and miscarriages. Of course, it would be impossible to determine how many were actually of the "Oops Baby" type, but the numbers are regrettable nonetheless. Keep in mind that
many illegitimate births are registered as legitimate, while many others escape registration entirely. If illegitimacy is, as defined by Webster, an index of comparative sexual morality among peoples having the same laws, customs, and social conditions, what do these stats say about our culture?
Illegitimacy and single parenthood have now become the conventional lifestyle option for raising children in many low-income communities. In the late 60s the relatively slow growth in black illegitimate births skyrocketed; reaching 49 percent in 1975 and 68 percent during the late 90’s. And if current trends continue, the black illegitimate birth rate will reach 75 percent in ten years, according to the Heritage Foundation.
These rapid increases in illegitimacy are also occurring among low-income whites; the illegitimate birth rate among white high school dropouts is 48 percent. The Center for Immigration Studies also reported that Hispanics
have seen the largest increase in out-of-wedlock births — from 19 percent of births in 1980 to 42 percent in 2003, mostly from immigrants.
The collapse of the family is the most important political issue facing American society because it is the root cause of so many other social and economic problems.Consequences of family disintegration have a substantial effect on the health, emotional stability, educational achievements, and life prospects of children.
Psychology Today
Magazine stated that children born out of wedlock, when compared to those in intact families, are almost twice as likely to exhibit anti-social behavior. They are more likely to manifest behavioral problems such as anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, and are more likely to commit suicide as teenagers. They are also more likely to begin sexual activity at younger ages, thereby increasing the chances of having a child out-of-wedlock themselves.
According to research conducted by Dr. Robert Hutchens of Cornell University, because the father plays an important role in a child’s cognitive development, children in single-parent families of low income are three times as likely to fail and repeat a year in grade school as are children in intact two-parent families.
Illegitimately-born children are not synonymous with "Oops Babies." But just like high school football leads to college football, and one drug leads to another, so too,in most cases, will illegitimacy lead to the dreadful wasteland mentioned above.
Henceforth, a solution must be found soon, or else, yeah you guess it, "Oops Babies" will destroy the family institution, and illegitimacy will undoubtedly be the status quo for future generations.