When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
A new study reports that divorce and unwed mothers cost the economy more than $112 billion each year.
Really?
Who supported and paid for the study?
The study was conducted by Georgia State University economist Ben Scafidi. His work was sponsored by four groups who consider themselves part of a nationwide “marriage movement” — the New York-based Institute for American Values, the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Families Northwest of Redmond, Wash., and the Georgia Family Council, an ally of the conservative ministry Focus on the Family.
Right. Gotcha.
I think the Republican party is deeply conflicted about divorce. On the one hand, the social conservatives don’t like it, on the other hand, the fiscal conservatives can’t help but see the stimulus that having each family in two households gives to the economy.
Think about it: two households and all the stuff that each one needs, two (at least) cars, double purchases for clothes and personal items. Divorce can double our domestic growth and I’m sure that economists are clued in on that.