Marrying moms, dads need apply (Proposed "Marry Your Baby's Daddy" Day)

New York Daily News ^ | Jan. 6 2005 | Adam Nichols

[mountaineer]

Unwed parents are being seduced into wedlock by a New York writer fighting to reverse an anti-marriage trend. Author Maryann Reid is tempting couples with kids to take the plunge in a high-profile, all-expenses paid event - called Marry Your Baby Daddy Day.

She is looking for 10 couples who will tie the knot in an effort to halt a trend that, she claims, has 70% of black parents living outside wedlock.

"Everybody in the African-American community knows a baby mama or a baby daddy," she said, using slang terms to refer to single parents. "It's almost become trendy in the black community to have children out of wedlock ...."

[mountaineer]

Sounds good to me.

[Tax-chick]

Best wishes to her ... a small step, but if it makes a difference for a few families, it will be great.

[Chgogal]

"Everybody in the African-American community knows a baby mama or a baby daddy," she said, using slang terms to refer to single parents. "It's almost become trendy in the black community to have children out of wedlock ....""

When 70% of the children are born to single parents, that is no longer a trend or trendy. That statistic indicates a large flock of sheeple. Period.

[Izzy Dunne]

called Marry Your Baby Daddy Day.

Uhhhh... I don't think babies SHOULD be daddies...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Is there DNA testing first to prove "Who's Yer Daddy?" (Provided at tax-payer expense, of course!)

[atomicpossum]

First off, let's stop calling them something cutesy like 'daddies.' They're just SPERM DONORS.

[Onelifetogive]

"It's(sic) almost become trendy in the black community to have children out of wedlock ...."

Almost???

[GovernmentShrinker]

I'm sure these will be wonderful, stable marriages. No different from marriages that people enter into because they actually wanted to, instead of because someone bribed them with a glitzy party. < /s>

[firebrand]

These people need to stop meddling in others' lives.

[Tall_Texan]

Well, is the goal then for all the winners to be black?

And, if that's so, perhaps the title of the day isn't grammatically incorrect enough. Why not call it "Marry Da Ho You Knocked Up Day"?

[ishabibble]

Actually, Maury Povitch does that for the American taxpayers. I get the chills when I see those mutants on his show. It is the Dirtball Hit Parade. Those poor little babies...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"First off, let's stop calling them something cutesy like 'daddies.' They're just SPERM DONORS."

Man, you're mean! I like that in a person. ;)

[mountaineer]

"It's almost become trendy in the black community to have children out of wedlock ...."

While I understand the focus of this woman's efforts is on young blacks in New York, the same could be said of white kids in my own region, the Upper Ohio Valley. Girls in their teens and early 20s in these parts don't seem to think twice about unprotected sex, pregnancy, the sperm donor's lack of interest or "raising a child" for whom they are emotionally and financially unprepared. Of course, the babies get dumped on the grandparents in so many cases.