Phony Solutions for Real Social Ills | David Boaz | Cato Institute: Commentary

Phony Solutions for Real Social Ills | David Boaz | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Reducing the incidence of unwed motherhood, divorce, fatherlessness, welfare and crime would be a good thing. So why the focus on issues that would do nothing to solve the 'breakdown of the basic family structure' and the resulting 'high cost of a dysfunctional society'? Well, solving the problems of divorce and unwed motherhood is hard. And lots of Republican and conservative voters have been divorced. A constitutional amendment to ban divorce wouldn't go over very well, even with the social conservatives. Far better to pick on a small group, a group not perceived to be part of the Republican constituency, and blame it for social breakdown and its associated costs."