Families and money. The truth about why they don't go together:

As in fire and gasoline.

Look at what's going on around you in today's "free market, lovely capitalist" 'sociey'. The rich selling at every opportunity and even other countries ditching the dollar. And the US debt continues to skyrocket. But nevermind that, we know collapse is certain. Let's look at the big dichotomy that the fundies managed to present in one easy-to-buy package despite the incongruous nature of both entities and how they simply CANNOT work together.

Money is evil. Even the Bible says so. Now look at the stress it causes for individuals AND FAMILIES because, thanks to reaganomics (and even before then) one had to go to ridiculous lengths to be employable; and when a field was made obsolete the individual had to find something else or basically DIE.

Now add in reaganomics. Both parents had to start taking jobs in order to pay for everything. Less time together hurts the couple and harms the child as well. You'd think the repukes would have clocked this fact by now. That or they choose to ignore it, which is a far worse thing to do.

Never mind how money stress or the lack OF money leads to DIVORCE.

Repukes talk of hating divorce and demanding we all be in nuclear heterosexual breeding families and also being with the children so they don't grow up to be axe murderers or neocons. So why do they also then allow the corporate rich to screw their employees at the same time while buying/destroying small businesses, which means that anybody WANTING to be independent usually isn't in the end.

</rambling rant on the impossible dichotomy repukes want us all to believe, and how many in the public blindly swallow it all>

Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke

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Not even a college degree offers insurance anymore. Indeed, college-educated women are 60% more likely to end up bankrupt than less-educated females. That's because educated women often find themselves in financially ruinous divorces from which they can never recover economically. In the 1970s, the average newly divorced woman found 19% of her income to be discretionary. Today, that figure has fallen to 4%.

The book offers a long list of prescriptions, the boldest of which are tax-exemption for all savings and a school-choice voucher system that would pay the entire cost of educating a child, allowing kids to apply to any public school regardless of their Zip Code. The authors also argue for expanded financial assistance for pre-K and college education, as well as more policies that would discourage debt.

The role of personal responsibility isn't shortchanged, either. More and more, you're on your own -- and yet 32% of employees still don't contribute a dime to their 401(k)s. Here, the authors' solutions are the old standbys: Stash away enough cash to support yourself for six months. Max out on retirement savings. Scrape together that old-fashioned 20% downpayment.

But even for families that do everything right, the line between solvency and bankruptcy has never been thinner. One catastrophic medical incident, one job loss, one divorce -- and they may never recover. Despite being courted hard by politicians, there's no such thing as a safety net for the middle class.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_37/b3849034_mz005.htm