Unemployed, unmarriageable men

The number of jobless men is on the rise in Britain.

According to London’s Times Online, male unemployment in Liverpool rose to 30 percent in 2001, after the collapse of manufacturing industries, compared to 12 percent in 1971. Such figures correlate with a rise in single motherhood, with more mothers choosing to work or manage alone on welfare.

The welfare system in Britain is creating “a glut of unemployed, unwanted, unmarriageable men,” the Times Online says. One in seven working-age households are dependent on the state for half of their income, and more than half of all single parents get at least half of their income from the state.

Jobless men are less likely to get married, and therefore less likely to raise good, stable sons of their own. They are “overlooked by society, irrelevant to employers, unwanted by women who can raise families on benefits without their help.” Many single mothers currently living off welfare “describe the real fathers of their children as ‘useless’ or worse. The men have no role.”

The increase in unemployed men has stemmed in part from the collapse of manufacturing industries and a benefit system that has “undermined their motivation.” Joblessness rates for men and women have been traveling in opposite directions for 30 years according to Robert Rowthorn, professor of economics at Cambridge. He thinks the government should start questioning the feminization of the workplace and of education.

Earlier this year, theTrumpet.com wrote,

It is common to see grown boys who have cultivated no drive or ambition, no moral conviction, no ability or even desire to lead, and no bodily strength. They have few salable skills and a poor work ethic. They haven’t been taught any sense of honor toward women or responsibility toward children, nor of duty to provide for or protect them. …A man’s divinely ordained responsibilities include leading, protecting, providing for and loving his family. By failing to educate our boys to embrace these duties as men, we are dooming them to perpetual adolescence and depriving them of the genuine satisfaction that comes from fulfilling their potential. Worse, we are striking a mortal blow to the stability of our families and our society.