In 2005, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, the out-of-wedlock birth rate among non-Hispanic whites was 25.3 percent and the rate among non-Hispanic blacks was almost 70 percent.
Given that, according to many sources, more than 80% of blacks voted for UhBama, its an easy call to conclude that he won the Black bastard vote.
(We'll put aside that UhBama is a self-selected “black” having told us in his autobiography that he struggled with his biracial identity before settling the matter for himself. Given his self-described race, and since no court records have been forthcoming that show when he changed his name to the current one, he is the ultimate self-made bastard. Not only should his election settle the race issue, but the bastard issue too!)
Yet what does this say about our culture? First that the circumstances of a person's birth should not constrain his ability to reach his maximum potential. But most importantly, it says that in large segments of our society, children are being conceived by single women. Studies abound that demonstrate that male children who are raised without a stable father in the home have a significantly higher rates of low performance and higher rates of being arrested for violent crimes than males raised with a stable father and mother.
So, in a roundabout way, the cultural stigma attached to “bastards” is shown to have had a basis in fact, even as we recoil from the implications of blanket prejudice that it implies.
You said: But most importantly, it says that in large segments of our society, children are being conceived by single women. Studies abound that demonstrate that male children who are raised without a stable father in the home have a significantly higher rates of low performance and higher rates of being arrested for violent crimes than males raised with a stable father and mother.
Indeed, we live in a society where fathers are shunned and where “family courts” seek to reduce Dad to a child support check each month for mothers to spend “as they see fit” (which rarely means spending for anything related to the children.) We live in a society where “family courts” steal children from loving fathers (yes, some dads are scum—as are some moms) and thereby ruin children and any chance
children having the guidance and steering that only a loving Dad can provide.
Society is warped... not sure we’ll fix the problem until there’s a men’s movement on par with the women’s movement in the ‘60s and ‘70s.