In contemporary American society, the increasing prevalence of children born outside of wedlock reflects a broader erosion of marriage's sanctity, with over 40 percent of live births now occurring to single mothers and roughly half of those cases involving mothers raising children entirely alone. This trend has nearly doubled since 1980 among women in their late thirties or early forties who choose single motherhood as their childbearing window closes, and it has extended to younger women in their early to mid-twenties who increasingly embrace the lifestyle through artificial insemination. Such arrangements treat the father as a disposable element, often reduced to the role of sperm donor whose presence or absence depends on the mother's preference, with other male relatives sometimes substituted as role models. This pattern echoes the casual, temporary liaisons between studs and broodmares, where family structures become yours-mine-and-ours households or single-parent homes disrupted by illegitimacy and divorce. Biblical precedent portrays such behavior as following base animal drives, as seen when God likens Judah's adulteries and lustful neighing to the lewdness of harlotry and when He describes people as well-fed lusty stallions neighing after neighbors' wives. God established marriage as the foundation of the family by declaring that a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, becoming one flesh, and He hates divorce while forbidding sexual activity outside of marriage. He places a clear stigma on illegitimacy by stating that one of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord even to the tenth generation, desiring instead a nation of whole families that produce cohesive and peaceful societies rather than the disastrous outcomes of men taking wives of all whom they chose before the Flood. The fifth commandment reinforces this by requiring honor for both father and mother to ensure long days in the land, recognizing that fathers contribute vitally to well-rounded and secure individuals, even though provisions exist for cases where fathers fail.

Richard Ritenbaugh acknowledges that young people display a proclivity to accept socialism, oblivious to the horrendous damage socialist experiments have brought to the world. Politicians of the ilk of Bernie Sanders have fomented hatred toward capitalism by comparing it to an imaginary utopia. Economist Walter Williams insists that the free market, with all its warts, is far superior to collectivism at protecting people from poverty. Poverty is not usually an economic issue but stems from ethical and moral deficits. Socialism simply transfers wealth to the leaders of a government, leaving most of the citizenry in greater poverty. Williams, in his article, "Do These Four Things to Avoid Poverty," suggests that a young person, to keep his nose above poverty or failure, needs to (1.) complete high school, (2.) get a job, (3.) get married before having children, and (4.) be a law-abiding citizen. Poverty is self-caused—not the result of society, bad laws or systemic bigotry. Young people who drop out of school, take drugs, and fornicate set themselves up for failure. The law is no problem for those who obey it, but it will break those who break it, making it difficult to rebound.