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In reply to the discussion: Why do people have kids with their boyfriends/girlfriends? [View all]notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)115. only financially
if I hadn't been married, I would not have been entitled to my husband's pension and health care.
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You can't believe that all or most of those who have a child without first getting married
onenote
Jan 2013
#43
because the tests are designed to fall out on a bell curve. best predictor of your score on an
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#78
Birth control pills are already covered for the poor. My daughter has two friends who get them free.
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Jan 2013
#56
They get them at CVS and I stand corrected, one gets them free and the other pays 4 dollars
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Feb 2013
#112
Ain't nothing free. It's free to the beneficiary, but it costs big time...
Honeycombe8
Feb 2013
#117
having your children when married does not ensure you will never be a single parent.
Marrah_G
Jan 2013
#11
And there's a *slight* difference between "not married" and "single." (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#119
Tell me something I don't know. My father died when all us kids were under 10. nt
raccoon
Feb 2013
#121
Tell me about, I am actually surprised when my clients are married with children.
Puzzledtraveller
Jan 2013
#15
When I worked with street kids, I lost track of the number of girls who had been
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#37
what about all those people who get married thinking they just married the sweetest person on Earth?
liberal_at_heart
Jan 2013
#64
Back in the days of the Iran-Contra controversy, I had a teaching colleague who
Lydia Leftcoast
Jan 2013
#39
I'm suggesting that if you pick a statistically significant and random sample set of people...
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#48
Do you think folks have kids without getting married because they're stupid or are they stupid
onenote
Jan 2013
#49
No you don't have it right... let me write more easily understood for you.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Feb 2013
#70
The RW likes to say that that's how the woman gets a guarantee of welfare so she
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#44
Because people in the "girlfriend/boyfriend" arena love fucking more than breathing.
Whovian
Jan 2013
#69
You're the one who's amazingly ignorant if you don't know that often it is a fight to get child
raccoon
Feb 2013
#122
My theory is people generally want and expect the natural outcomes of their actions.
Romulox
Feb 2013
#100
+1 I saw Pew research that suggested single-parenthood is no longer negative, no matter the demograp
patrice
Feb 2013
#111
A badge of "Pro-Life" "sainthood" & status for some financially secure emptynester grandparents?
patrice
Feb 2013
#109
That's an impressively patronizing OP, even by moralist DU OP standards. (nt)
Posteritatis
Feb 2013
#118
You think a marriage certificate will magically make a relationship good??
Manifestor_of_Light
Feb 2013
#134