In this morning's WaPo,
George Will is distressed by (what he considers) the high birth rate of the African-American evacuees. He can't help
"indelicately noting how many of the victims were women with children but not husbands."
And you know what means:
"That translates into a large and constantly renewed cohort of lightly parented adolescent males, and that translates into chaos in neighborhoods and schools, come rain or come shine."
And whose fault is it? Liberals, of course--like
"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, a suitable symbol of congressional narcissism." Will is also appalled by ingratitude of Barak Obama, who had the temerity to complain about
"the president's inadequate "empathy" and [level] an amazing criticism of the government's "historic indifference" and its "passive indifference" that "is as bad as active malice."
Here's George's message to the evacuees:
"Graduate from high school, don't have a baby until you are married, don't marry while you are a teenager. Among people who obey those rules, poverty is minimal."
Aren't we forgetting something, George? What helps keeps women out of poverty and from unintended pregnancies is low-cost and easily available contraception. Why do right-wing men like Will begrudge poor women birth control and take such a prurient interest in their personal lives?