Hi evlwhtguy,
I have no judgement of you. I agree with much of what you have said and I posed the question because I also think the stigma on occasion may have an indirect benefit. Regarding the vicious child abuse claim for a single mother it is a bit harsh and all encompassing for my sanction.
I do however believe using good judgement is essential for young women.
And not being responsible for actions is now taught to many young women. Media promotes promiscuity before even knowing the sex partners name , all the time.

I agree that having a lot of fatherless children around is a bad thing, mainly because of the values a father will usually teach his children, including responsibility. However, I do not share your love for "traditional values" because high on that list are both religious nonsense and the restrictions it imposes on sexual behavior among adults (which are obsolete, mainly because of birth control, to the extent they ever made sense at all).

But the way I would discourage women from raising children by themselves when they can't afford to is by (1) rolling back the child-support law to what it was in 1900 (no wedding, no child support) and (2) eliminating the welfare subsidy for having children. Then if you can't support your children, you would have to put them in foster care or go to jail for child neglect. I would expect this program to greatly improve life outcomes for the children affected, because it would remove them from the homes of mothers who only had them as a means of collecting welfare benefits in place of getting jobs (and who are therefore very bad role models, in whose footsteps the kids are now very likely to follow). More to the point, it would mostly prevent kids with those poor prospects in life from being born at all.

Finally, I would legalize prostitution so that guys would have a good alternative to getting married if they're not really interested in raising children in the first place.

(Aside: I find it quite amusing that the people who talk the most about "the attack on family values" -- the religious right -- are probably more wedded than anybody else to the one government program that really started the breakup of families -- Social Security. First created by Bismarck in the 1870s, social security was what made it feasible for adults to move out of grandpa's house and form nuclear families. Is there anyone here who'd want to go back?)

Love Joanie. A very underated poet/musician.

That's how you rock a fiddle.
I looked Doug Kershaw up to see if once worked in a sawmill. No.
He's a Cajun who learned to speak English at the age of 8. By then he had already mastered the violin. He can play a variety of other instruments.
I long, long ago heard the Southern accent has its roots in French-speaking settlers.
On my mother's side I'm related to French folks the Brits kicked out of Canada.
It would have been cool if my ancestors belonged to those who split away south down the Mississippi to become Cajuns in Louisiana..
But no-o! Mine just had to settle in such places as New Jersey and Connecticut instead.
Evidently, my ancestors had no influence on dialect at all.
I have some maternal side cousins who talk just like Connecticut Yankees do.