Posted on 03/19/2009 5:45:24 AM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K
Play Video Video:Too Young for Birth Control? ABC News Play Video Video:Designer Babies FOX News AP – Graphic shows number of births in the U.S. since ATLANTA – Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World War II. More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history — and a wedding band made increasingly little difference in the matter. The 4,317,119 births, reported by federal researchers Wednesday, topped a record first set in 1957 at the height of the baby boom.
Behind the number is both good and bad news. While it shows the U.S. population is more than replacing itself, a healthy trend, the teen birth rate was up for a second year in a row.
The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend that started years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older.
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U.S. abortions dropped to their lowest levels in decades
Thank you Octomom.
I”d like to know what percentage of these unwed mothers receive welfare/food stamps. The solution? Make the Daddy pay child support.... if these ghetto Dads had to pay up, they’d quit producing babies all over the neighborhood with no more thought than they would use to change the channel on the tv
The good news is that there are fewer abortions and our population isn’t collapsing like Europe’s. The bad news is that young women are increasingly stupid and immoral.
40% of the kids born in this country will not have a father. This is going to be a complete disaster. No-fault divorce gay marriage? What liberalism has wrought.
Stupid and immoral like the young men who impregnated them.
In the ELEVENTH paragraph. Obviously written by a liberal comfortable with dumpsterization.
Most of them don't have jobs, and some don't even have a residence! Unless they followed these daddys through the legal system or by probation officers, they'll never get them to pay up, and you'll have women in courts trying to get bench warrants to get deadbeats or felons to pay money they don't have.
Besides, many of these mothers have numerous partners. No telling who cast the strongest seed!
Even cutting off the money spigot for the women wouldn't work - you have to get the "seed spreaders" involved in some sort of reason not to continue doing what they do without much thought
No, the solution is to stop paying food stamps, TANF, Medicaid and Section 8.
The government created an artificial unlimited demand for illegitimate children. It’s no surprise we have an unlimited supply of them.
The best way to make dads take care of their children is the old fashioned way. If he doesn’t do the right thing, the family of the mother makes sure he does. Since 1964, the government has given all of them the easy way out.
Families, when they are forced by necessity to take care of the bastard offspring of their daughters,
will protect said daughters from the “seed spreaders”.
The very best thing the Obams could do would be to campaign for women to stop being used as incubators for deadbeat men and to quit expecting the government to support them. It won't happen, but they could actually be role models for some young women if they cared enough to even try.
Recently, I’ve made it a pledge that whenever I hear someone spout some nonsense about the “angry white male” I’m going to counter with the “bitter single female” who claims to be independent, not need a man, but votes at every turn for the gov’t to replace the role of a man in her life.
Throughout the 90s I worked in two NYC 'ghettos.' One of the fashions I noticed was male teens and young men wearing chains of varying lengths made up of baby pacifiers hanging from a belt loop. Each pacifier denoted a child fathered by the wearer.....sad state of affairs indeed.
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