Posted on 04/01/2011 7:38:02 PM PDT by Niuhuru
One in five mothers in America have children with different fathers, a new study shows.
Researchers found that the trend was higher in minority groups and mothers with low income and education backgrounds.
The data was taken over a 27-year period from nearly 4,000 U.S. women who had been interviewed more than 20 times.
The study's author Cassandra Dorius said of the one in five figure: 'To put it in perspective, this is similar to the number of American adults with a college degree.
It's pervasive.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Plenty of middle-class or upper-income women have been divorced and remarried or widowed and remarried, and have children who have different fathers. (No, I am not one.) But just on general principles, the Brits can go boink themselves.
Thank Liberals for this mess going back to LBJ.
I happen to be a father that has children with different moms. Does this stigmatize me in your eyes?
My dad was a garbageman, my first sister’s dad was unemployed, and my second sister’s dad was a milk man. ;~)
I suspect the numbers are worse than that. I also suspect it is similar in the UK.
I’ve always wondered what percentage of fathers were (unknowingly) raising a child that was not really theirs. My gut tells me that figure would be higher than anyone ever imagined—and not just recently.
PING
Thank Liberals for this mess going back to LBJ.
Yep, The Great Society tripe has really worked wonders.
I have to say, I am surprised the percentage is so low.
I’m not sure what this is supposed to be telling us...I would expect divorced mothers with children, remarrying and having children with a different husband. Given the divorce rate is about 50%, this 20% number isn’t that shocking.
If they’re studying illegitimate rates, then that’s what they should have said in the study and even studied rather than dancing around it.
Amazing coincidence, as only 1/5 of Democrats know who their father is.
I’m sure Christmas is a joyous time of the year!
I got multiple baby mama out there.
Ain’t nothing wrong with that.
I’m trying to populate the earth in my image.
Ping!
I think Johnson always had the same wife.
Is there any American President that has children from more than one wife?
I’m sure Christmas is a joyous time of the year!
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Not to mention Father’s Day.
And some of those women even admit it it!
Same here. I've got two grown ones from my past life, and four with my current wife. I was single for fifteen years, in between marriages.
I think they are saying once they start sleeping around they never stop. Sort of like Newt. It has always amazed me that men who mess around with a married woman and winds up marrying her, he is all shocked when he finds her doing the same thing to him, but then it works both ways.
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