Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate

AP ^

[roses of sharon]

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The black community's 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.

This issue entered the public consciousness in 1965, when a now famous government report by future senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described a "tangle of pathology" among blacks that fed a 24 percent black "illegitimacy" rate. The white rate then was 4 percent.

Many accused Moynihan, who was white, of "blaming the victim:" of saying that black behavior, not racism, was the main cause of black problems. That dynamic persists. Most talk about the 72 percent has come from conservative circles; when influential blacks like Bill Cosby have spoken out about it, they have been all but shouted down by liberals saying that a lack of equal education and opportunity are the true root of the problem.

Even in black churches, "nobody talks about it," Carroll says. "It's like some big secret."

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There are simple arguments for why so many black women have children without marriage.

The legacy of segregation, the logic goes, means blacks are more likely to attend inferior schools. This creates a high proportion of blacks unprepared to compete for jobs in today's economy, where middle-class industrial work for unskilled laborers has largely disappeared.

The drug epidemic sent disproportionate numbers of black men to prison, and crushed the job opportunities for those who served their time. Women don't want to marry men who can't provide for their families, and welfare laws created a financial incentive for poor mothers to stay single.

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[hinckley buzzard]

what can be done?

The underclass are largely populated by people of subnormal intelligance (IQ around 80). They are pretty much beyond redemption, although the fate of their children is not sealed.

The most promising overall strategy will be to build on strength-- strengthen the Black middle class and enable them to provide access to the real world for any Black youth with the capabilities to benefit.

This will require successful Blacks to begin to man up in numbers not yet seen.

If I were able to disburse funding, I would give it not to a bunch of chickenshit gubbermint social workers but rather to Black entrepreneurs who are willing to commit to staying in the vicinity of the untapped Black labor market.

Black men are the greatest untapped resource in America. We should expose and intensely comdemn liberals for destroying generations of these men, who could otherwise be strong members of the community.

[hinckley buzzard]

white illegitimacy rate -- 4% in 1965, 29% in 2010. Cultural disintegration.

And note, the 29% white illegitimacy rate now is higher than the rate among Blacks, back when Moynihan wrote his benchmark treatise of the crisis of the Black family in America.

[hinckley buzzard]

out of wedlock birth rate for blacks dropped from 96 per 1000 to around 60 out of 1000

So according to somebody at The Atlantic, only 6% (60 out of 1000) of Black babies are illegitimate. And you believe this.

[hinckley buzzard]

out of wedlock birth rate for blacks dropped from 96 per 1000 to around 60 out of 1000

So according to somebody at The Atlantic, only 6% (60 out of 1000) of Black babies are illegitimate. And you believe this.

[roses of sharon]

Black men are the greatest untapped resource in America. We should expose and intensely comdemn liberals for destroying generations of these men, who could otherwise be strong members of the community.

Bingo, letting another generation rot in prison will be a sin.

I agree, the white liberals, and black celebs (and now Barack Obama)....have an EPIC FAIL on their hands, and no one is speaking out to condemn them for their exploitation of poor black Americans, no one has said out loud that their public policies have cost lives, minds, and souls, for generations.

[hinckley buzzard]

I am guessing Hallmark does not sell many Fathers Day cards in Harlem.

Rumor has it they have initiated a whole new line of "Happy Baby-Daddy's Day" cards.

[LightningStriker2010]

No, that is not what the statistic says. It is saying that in 2005, 6% of single black women gave birth. Almost 9% of single black women gave birth in 1980. The author cites the specific sources of the information.

Table 19, page 59-60 of the CDC site is cited. Note that a higher percentage of single Hispanic women gave birth in 2005.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_06.pdf

This other CDC link is referenced:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_16.pdf

So as noted, the 70 percent of black children born out of wedlock statistic predominantly results from the low marriage rate among blacks and married blacks having a lower birth rate than married people of the two other major groups (white and Hispanic).

[Zionist Conspirator]

Even in black churches, "nobody talks about it," Carroll says. "It's like some big secret."

Judging from Black political behavior, there's a great deal nobody talks about in the Black churches.