Every one has had an opportunity to seek Fr. Ivo opinion. My questions are not directly related to religion. Yet they are related to VALUES - social, religious, common-sense, etc.. So feel free to state that the issues that I am seeking some answers / comments have nothing to do with religion. To cut to the chase:
Recently in the USA media the following alarming statistics was presented: Nearly 40% of US babies in 2006 were born outside of marriage (to single mothers). In 1980, this statistic was 18%. Some of the 40% single mothers will marry the father of their child with whom they are in a live-in relation. That is the good news about the 2006 statistic. The bad news: Given that half of marriages end in divorce, the 60% of the babies born to married couples will likely grow up with only one of their biological parent. Given this high statistics of these problems, I do not think the weak-link in the individual single mother and certainly not the baby who is the unintentional victim. I think this is "A System Failure". If in a corporation, 40% of their product was 'defective' (for want of a better term) and the other 60% would have a very high probability to fail, (for want of a better term), that corporation would be out of business, with no one buying their product. So Fr. Ivo what is your analysis of what and why is this going-on in American society? Thanks in anticipation. Kind Regards, GL
