The Health Matrix: Destroying families as another form of control

I don't know about anyone else, but living in Denver there is yet another disturbing trend.  I noticed this when I was trying to get out and meet new people, make some new friends recently.  This place is absolutely overrun with single moms!

When I started noticing this, it really came home that this has much greater implications than just a struggling mom.  Sure, they're heros for their actions. But considering that a one bedroom suite in Denver costs approximately $1500 a month to rent, and housing is absolutely out of control (houses that would cost $150,000 in the Midwest are around $400,000 here), most single mothers I know have to work 40-60 hours per week, often having multiple jobs, just to barely get by.  Therefore, they have no real chance of meeting other people.  So they are largely isolated.

The divorce rate in America is staggering.  I didn't know the true stats until my college internship, where I lived with my supervisor in his basement for several months.  He was a recently divorced firefighter (well, technically he was the health and wellness coordinator) and so being in the firefighting system he was forced to attend marriage classes.  He told me the stats they were displaying.

For couples who are both under 30 getting married, divorce rates are...90%!  I could not believe it.  And second marriage divorce rates were in the mid 90%. Basically any couple you see who gets married before 30, you can kiss that relationship goodbye.  Its only a matter of time.  Before long, I started seeing my friends from highschool on facebook.  We would chit chat and I was seeing that most of my friends were divorced.  Worse yet there were usually two to three kiddos involved, so I could only imagine that struggle.

Upon further research we find that the welfare system actually rewards mothers being single.  Sometimes they are encouraged to separate because single moms get more money from the government.  While this makes certain sense, it also is obviously encouraging in some manner families to breakup.  Very sad indeed.  Some couples would actually technically divorce but stay together just so they could get more welfare benefits.

Then we have the monumental costs of daycare.  Many parents see their kids for a few hours a day.  The rest of the time they are away with strangers.  This can't bode too well for family bonding.

THEN we have the education system (indoctrination camps) and this hideous trend of not only encouraging kids into the system at younger ages, further alienating them from the family, but they are just being bombarded with hours of mostly useless homework.  I for one did probably one hour of homework total in high school.  I just didn't see the point of spending 8 hours at school only to spend 3-4 more doing fifty of the same damn math problem.  I graduated with a 2.94 GPA and then just slayed the ACT, which got me into any school in Wisconsin besides Madison.  Absolutely nothing in my life would be different if I spent all that time doing homework.  I preferred the library where I could read and learn what I wanted at will, for free without being bothered with standardized testing.

This to me is one of the fundamental control systems in this Matrix of life.  Get kids away from the family for longer and longer times, burdening them with more and more frivolous work when they could be learning valuable skills and making friends.  With all this damn homework, no wonder so many kids are not very social.  They never learned to be!

And, like so many strange trends in the U.S., this must be on purpose at some level.  Coupled with the destruction of private schooling through "common core" which as anyone can see is one of the stupidest programs ever to be implemented (what the HELL is with these multiplication tables??) the family is being torn apart at earlier ages.  In the end, the government is becoming the family to a lot of these kids and they don't even know it.

I'm not trying to rant here, just put out my insight into this strange dilemma, and wondering what anyone else thinks or if they have some ideas of their own to add.  I've done my best to deter many younger people from blindly going through this education system.  Often times when you really just ask deep questions to new college students, they start to realize that they don't even know why the hell they are in school.  One girl I know and have worked with personally has a great side job as a body painter...and she's very good at it.  I just asked "Why don't you make a business out of what you love, where you can charge $60 / hour, and drop this useless business degree which is probably going to land you a desk job you hate and pays less?"

These kids need mentors to at least make them question why they are going through with this stuff.  Sure, I have a lot of friends who worked their ass off in school, became engineers and make a lot of money and are doing very well.  But for every one of those, I have five friends that look back and laugh at their philosophy and history majors, where they quickly found...NO JOBS.

Finally, with the war on Christianity that's the final lynch pin to destroy family values.  I'm not even a Christian technically but I abhor the constant badgering of them by the media.  Christian values may not be perfect but most of my extended family are devout Catholic and again, while I don't agree with all their viewpoints, they're all still married, have pretty happy and close knit families and not a lot of drama.

Just a few thoughts on this subject, hope it makes a couple people see things a little differently and maybe even save a family or two.

Ben