Wednesday, April 8, 2009

continuation of conversation around the rise in unwedded motherhood

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

While 28 percent of white women gave birth out of wedlock in 2007, nearly 72 percent of black women and more than 51 percent of Latinas did.

England assumed many of the fathers would have high-tailed it out of the picture by the sixth month of pregnancy, leaving single mothers "truly single," the sociologist said. Instead, she found that in 80 percent of the non-marital births, parents stayed romantically involved and in 50 percent of the cases they were living together.

3 comments:

  1. Yeah parents probably do stay romantically involved until after the birth of the child. But a child is a burden on a relationship, married or not and most of those relationships don't last.
    CNN was able to find a couple that did stay together and get married 10 months after the birth of the child. But that's not the norm.
    People need to stop playing and use birth control. Babies raising babies is the biggest threat to our community.

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  2. chase, do you support "supermanning hoes" as birth control? see i think this is the real problem; we have to define birth control for certain people

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