… then comes Daddy with a baby carriage.
The verse was drummed into my generation, but I bet many of you are too young to have ever heard it, right?
Well, the essence of the rhyme’s message was captured in a WSJ op-ed this week.
Ari Fleischer – one of Bush’s press secretaries wrote:
“The U.S. is steadily separating into a two-caste system with marriage and education as the dividing line. In the high-income third of the population, children are raised by married parents with a college education; in the bottom-income third, children are raised by single parents with a high-school diploma or less.”
A better and more compassionate policy to fight income inequality (than redistributing wealth from working families) would be helping the poor realize that the most important decision they can make is to stay in school, get married and have children — in that order.
One might dispute the conclusion, but here are some facts …
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