[wardaddy]

On the stats....I think what would be more informative to me personally would be the stats on married with children under six working mothers.

Strictly working with children under 6 moms is going to be higher in states like Mississippi where minority illegitmacy is the rule rather than the exception.

[Lorianne]

Either the unwed birth rate is high OR the abortion rate is high. Choose your poison, I guess. Personally, I'd like to see the unmarried CONCEPTION rate decline, and by all accounts it is declining, albeit slowly. In the interim, I'll take live children over dead ones, any day.

And once born, someone has to support children. They can't support themselves. The chart didn't say whether the working moms were unmarried, married, divorced, widowed, etc. It just indicated what percentage of mothers of young children worked. It would be interesting to see the breakdown on marriage and working moms by state.