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I'm like other Americans, I want to blame everyone else, except myself AND my generation-- our fathers and mothers did a lousy job- we will fix things......well folks, check these stats and think about how WE got things WRONG.

1,293,567 Casualties: A social trend claims young victims

The National Center for Health Statistics has just released its report, “Births: Final Data for 1998,” which contained this unhappy finding: “The number of births to unmarried women rose 3 percent to 1,293,567, the highest number ever reported.” That means that one birth in three is now out of wedlock.

The report also found that illegitimate-birth rates “vary considerably by race and Hispanic origin.” The percentage of out-of-wedlock births for non-Hispanic whites is 21.9 percent, but for non-Hispanic blacks it’s 69.3 percent. For Hispanics it’s 41.6 percent, and for American Indians 59.3 percent. For Asians and Pacific Islanders overall the number is 15.6 percent, but this varies from 51.1 percent for Hawaiians to 6.4 percent and 9.7 percent for Chinese and Japanese Americans, respectively.

All of this is consistent with other recent data. Forty-five percent of black women managers or professionals have had an illegitimate child, compared to 3 percent of managerial or professional whites. Half of all births in New York City are illegitimate, and in some neighborhoods the proportion reaches 80 percent. A 1997 survey by the federal government found that the percentage of black high-school students who said they have had sex was 73 percent, versus 44 percent for whites and 52 percent for Hispanics.

But it hasn’t always been this way. In 1940, the black illegitimacy rate was 19 percent, less than what it is for whites now.

Does it matter? Of course it matters. It is only common sense that 1.3 million illegitimate children is a significant national problem.

Those are 1998 stats-- for sure we've fixed everything. Look closely at those births to unwed mothers and think of all the crime and national loss this untalked about problem.....or condoned problem.....do your thing, show your freedom...... avoid religion and responsibility. Free love worked. WRONG.

No you asserted that someone was promoting "mothers and their children be victims of a spouse as a positive thing verses being raised by a single parent" which no one did. You still haven't addressed your completely making something up to have something to argue about.

But you and your deflections...

The report was released in March of 2000 for 1998. Twenty four years after the report was released it's all of a sudden doomsday, lol. That post reads like every other dumb post someone's crazy aunt that spends too much time on FB sends to everyone.

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/85761

From the National Vital Statistics Report that was released in March of 2000 for 1998, and not "just released."

Here's the terrifying findings!

The birth rate for unmarried women in 1998 was 44.3 births per
1,000 unmarried women aged 15–44 years, 1 percent higher than in
1997 (44.0), but still 6 percent below its highest level, 46.9 in 1994.
The number of births to unmarried women increased 3 percent to
1,293,567 in 1998, the highest number ever reported. Most of this
3-percent increase is due to the 2-percent growth in the population of
unmarried women. The percent of all births occurring to unmarried
women rose from 32.4 to 32.8 percent in 1998

No, I don't feel a need to address them.

You are making up:


Those were the words you used. You won't own you made up an argument to have an attack surface. Then hide behind hand waves and smoke. Same as it ever was.