Why the Mortality Rate for Black Infants Is So High

National Review ^ | 07/03/2020 | By DMITRI SOLZHENITSYN

[SeekAndFind]

RE: 87% are fatherless.

C’mon. That number is too high.
Conservative black radio host Larry Elder pegged it at 71% citing government data.

[workerbee]

Full disclosure: I haven’t yet read the article.

But let me just say, my mother (God rest her sainted soul) was an RN for years in neonatal intensive care in a Baltimore City hospital. The stories she could tell you... I don’t know how she lived through the stress. Watching barely functioning drug addicts leave with those prematurely-born babies — trying to instruct them on the caregiving, while BabyDaddyPimp yakked on the cellphone about some “deal”, or Grandma screamed at the other 2,3,4 illegitimates in tow....