Single Motherhood: "The Active Social Policy of Liberals"

Ann Coulter, in her new book "Guilty," makes the amazing discovery that "getting pregnant is the result of having sex without using a condom." She quotes from the New York Times, which Coulter notes uses the passive voice to claim that single mothers on welfare become pregnant out-of-wedlock "because their youth was overtaken by motherhood." Their dillemas were caused by external factors, not their own exercise of free will.

The media would have us believe that poverty causes single motherhood and crime. Coulter documents in great detail with many examples how "the media constantly praises single mothers and sneers at the unhip, drab middle class with their bourgeois prejudices against having children out-of-wedlock." Coulter alleges that "we could wipe out chronic poverty in America tomorrow if women could just manage to get married before having children - and to stay married after having children." But she notes, and backs up with myriad examples, "single motherhood is the active social policy of liberals."

Coulter blasts sex education programs for promoting condom use by children. She asserts that "more seventh graders know how to put on a condom than can name the first president - although kids who are really good with a condom all seem to know the name of the 42nd."

Coulter notes that one conservative politician, Dan Quayle, dared to speak up for the 1.5 million children born out-of-wedlock every year in America, when he criticized the Murphy Brown t.v. show. Hollywood and the media came down so hard on Quayle, that no politician since Quayle has dared mention the subject. As she says, "the real victims, children raised without fathers, were swept under the rug." Single mothers who use donors' sperm come in for some of Coulter's biggest criticisms.

Coulter heartbreakingly describes in painstaking detail how liberals have destroyed the centuries-old legal authority of traditional marriage. The original rule of law that prevailed for centuries was that "unless a man is married to a woman when she gives birth to a child, he has no rights to that child, and unless a woman is married to a man when she gives birth to his child, she has no right to his paycheck or his time."