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Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously warned 40 years ago that the collapse of black family life would mean rising chaos and crime in the black community. Today, as many as 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock and 60 percent are raised in fatherless households.
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www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articl...
www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/05/destruction_in_black_america_is_self_inflicted/
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Forty-three percent of black pregnancies end in abortion, according to a recent study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a leading research and advocacy organization promoting sex education. Nearly 70 percent of all black children are born out-of-wedlock. ... If nearly half of all black kids in America are being aborted,
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www.acton.org/commentary/commentary_169.php
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Black and white Americans differ dramatically in marriage patterns and welfare dependence. In 1999, 68.8 percent of black American children were born out of wedlock.
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www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/CDA01-04.cfm
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Children being born out of wedlock is a result of poor judgement in most case and falls squarely on the shoulders of the individuals involved. ... I was unaware that black children were the ONLY ones being born out of wedlock. People fail to believe that most government aid is received by non African Americans.
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They point out that 5 percent of white children were born out of wedlock from 1965 to 1969, compared to 16 percent in the 1980's. Black children born out of wedlock increased from 35 percent to 62 percent in the same period.
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www.lifenews.com/nat3269.html
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"Why are there so many out-of-wedlock births in the African-American community?" He asks, and presents statistics indicating that nearly 70% of black babies are born out of wedlock - surely an incredible figure. ... Racism and Children...
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racerelations.about.com/od/parentingrace/a/outofwedlock...
racerelations.about.com/od/parentingrace/a/outofwedlock.htm
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The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the Department of Health and Human Services contracted with Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) to conduct the Strengthening Families With Children Born Out of Wedlock study (referred to in this report as the Strengthening Families study).
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www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/strengthen/strengthfam/re...
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/strengthen/strengthfam/reports/conceptual_framework/framework_chp1.html
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We should avoid confusing a rise in the relative number of black kids born out of wedlock with their percentage of black births overall. What we need to know is the number of black women who are having children of out marriage versus their numbers in the population.
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ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/even_m...
ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/even_more_on_out_of_wedlock_births.php
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Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Those mothers are far more likely than married mothers to be poor, even after a post-welfare-reform decline in child poverty. They are also more likely to pass that poverty on to their children. ... There was an out-of-wedlock teen-pregnancy epidemic.
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www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html
www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html
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