Every woman is told that she can have all the financial benifits of having a working husband without having to actually have one. The government will happily extract everything from him for her. I believe that was a big part of Clinton's appeal to the 'soccer moms'. He promised them he ( the government) was going to be the surrogate husband and take care of them.
This article is right on the money. It not only applys to Blacks, but white kids today.
The problem is that now the late teens ( and early ones too) have grown up under this situation and are having their own babies.
Breaking the cycle is going to be a monumental task.
I see this as well. I work in a welfare office and I see a lot of white girls having babies out of wedlock. It's as though this has become acceptible in our society now. A lot of them lie about the father being in the home because if they claim him in the home we would have to budget his income against their foodstamps and cash grants and more often than not they would not be eligible. They seem to think their world would fall apart if they did not get these benefits since they have lived on them for so long. I think it is not just a black or white problem-it's a national problem.