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I've posted a few times [1,2,3] about the conservatives' lack of understanding when it came to single mothers, and specifically Sarah Palin's daughter's (then) imminent birth of a child out-of-wedlock.
More specifically, I had noticed for the past couple of years how Hollywood was condoning single motherhood, and not only that, but doing extensive coverage of young movie stars who were getting pregnant out-of-wedlock.
It was getting so bizarre, that at every turn, there was some starlet getting pregnant - to prove her womanhood, it seemed. It was becoming one of those rites of passage. At one time, I was shocked (yes, I really was) that an American Idol winner, Fantasia, actually had a song in the charts exalting single motherhood called "Baby Mama".
Well, Ann Coulter was on The View today to talk about her new book 'Guilty", and specifically her chapter on single mothers, and that is exactly what she says. She puts a more historical and societal perspective to it by saying that this was the culmination of years of anti-nuclear family and anti-male propaganda, as in "sisters are doing it but for themselves". And Hollywood and celebrities are now using single motherhood a some kind of trophy up the celebrity ladder.
More grim news from the real world includes how the majority of societal ills, from murders to prison inmates to juvenile delinquents are attributable to the offspring of single mothers - and especially seems to affect blacks the most.
The token "conservative" on The View, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, instead of realizing the immensity of the problem as Coulter describes it, totally misses the point by saying - "why don't you come down hard on the fathers who weren't there rather than the women who actually raised their children?"
Actually, on second thoughts, I don't think Hasselbeck is missing the point. I think it is exactly the issue that will be the real deciding factor between conservative women and women who slide onto the liberal wing. This was so clearly on display, as I blogged previously, during the Bristol Palin debacle. A group of so-called conservative bloggers and pundits put out a video in support of single motherhood in solidarity with Palin's daughter. Many others publicly supported Bristol. Even Sarah Palin, Bristol's own mother, is a member of an organization called "Feminists for Life" obviously playing on the right to life issue, which has various programs for single mothers.
Now, Hasselbeck, without any consternation, talks about the fathers who abandoned these single mothers, when Coulter says that it is all a planned attack on the nuclear family ( and men) that culminated with this.
This could be the conservative issue of the century.