Posted on 01/17/2018 2:31:59 PM PST by LibertyFound
40 Percent of All US Childbirths Occur to Single Mothers, 700 Percent Higher than in 1960
A recent report from the Social Capital Project reveals that the American family is disintegrating, fast. Fully 40 percent of mothers are currently unmarried.
This is bad news, because good families depend on good marriages. Marriage is the moral glue that binds them. It’s the stabilizing agent. There’s a reason that children from married couples do better in school, and are less likely to end up in jail as compared to children of unmarried mothers, known as “fragile families.”
Lavar Young, civil rights activist, thinks marriage is a powerful tool for fighting against racial inequality. He outlines some of the problems children born out of wedlock face:
Fragile families are shown to have harsher parenting practices and fewer literacy activities, and children of such families produce lower cognitive test scores and a have a higher incidence of aggressive behavior.
Children are not the only ones who suffer, according to Mr. Young:
…compared with “traditional families,” parents of fragile families are more likely to have become parents in their teens, more likely to have had children with other partners, more likely to be poor, suffer from depression, struggle with substance abuse, and to have been incarcerated.
When it comes to raising successful children, the importance of married parents cannot be overstated. On balance, married parents set better examples, and foster more stable relationships and environments that better prepare children for adult life. This is eloquently put by the authors at the Social Capital Project:
Continued on the National Economics Editorial
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You have great insight. I believe members of fractured families create the illegal drug culture which caused more fractured families. If there was a self-perpetuating machine, this is it. The illegal drug industry is a machine fed by human misery.
There is a post in the Corner of National Review in 2012 and it was 72% Black, 53% Hispanic, 29% White, and 17% Asian.
It is a disaster for these kids.
Being a single mom is also a leading cause of infant mortality.
A result of LBJ and the LIEberal’s “War on Poverty” and the LIEberal war on conservative institutions.
This is the end result of horrible liberal policies that started by the drug riddled politicians in the 1960s.
JoMa
As the dishonest, immoral man-hating culture, import regime and drug abuse have increased, so has fatherlessness. Life will continue to worsen, until a correction results from debt collapse or nuclear war.
Well; you got the percentages down; now try looking at the actual NUMBERs involved here.
No; it’s just plain ol’ SIN; like it’s always been.
My rule of thumb for any fertile female who asks my thoughts on sex: NEVER have sex with any man you don't think would make a good father.
Well, I did not have a chance to get the actual figures. Just ball parking the stats. The numbers are not so out of wack since I did not break it down among Asians so included just a quick figure of about 35% but the actual figures for white kids born out of wedlock is about 30% relative to their race. https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/percent-of-out-of-wedlock-births-by-age-and-race-of-of-mother/
Good advice, and I’m glad to see you mention, the women refusing to marry.
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