Mickey Kaus Analyzes Recent Statistics About Marriage and Welfare Reform
I strongly recommend you read it and follow some of the links within. The increase in black children born out of wedlock to a peak of about 70 percent in 1996 has been covered extensively by writers like Kaus, Thomas Sowell, Maggie Gallagher, Charles Murray, Myron Magnet, and Heather Mac Donald. They get their statistics from government agencies in Washington, DC - operations like the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.