Posted on 05/13/2009 9:56:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Unmarried mothers gave birth to 4 out of every 10 babies born in the United States in 2007, a share that is increasing rapidly both here and abroad, according to government figures released Wednesday.
Before 1970, most unmarried mothers were teenagers. But in recent years the birthrate among unmarried women in their 20s and 30s has soared — rising 34 percent since 2002, for example, in women ages 30 to 34. In 2007, women in their 20s had 60 percent of all babies born out of wedlock, teenagers had 23 percent and women 30 and older had 17 percent.
Much of the increase in unmarried births has occurred among parents who are living together but are not married, cohabitation arrangements that tend to be less stable than marriages, studies show.
The pattern has been particularly pronounced among Hispanic women, climbing 20 percent from 2002 to 2006, the most recent year for which racial breakdowns are available. Eleven percent of unmarried Hispanic women had a baby in 2006, compared with 7 percent of unmarried black women and 3 percent of unmarried white women, according to government data drawn from birth certificates.
Titled “Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States,” the report was released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Out-of-wedlock births are also rising in much of the industrialized world: in Iceland, 66 percent of children are born to unmarried mothers; in Sweden, the share is 55 percent. (In other societies, though, the phenomenon remains rare — just 2 percent in Japan, for example.)
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Don't expect many single mothers to vote Republican -- they need government as Daddy. I do not agree with the priorities of the social conservative bloc in the Repubilcan Party. Reducing illegitimacy is very important.
Eugene Cane (an African American writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) tackles the tough social question regarding single parenting in the African-American community. An issue, which he believes has an impact on everything from crime to education to poverty.
“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.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/parentingrace/a/outofwedlock.htm
Well, I guess we can’t blame this on same-sex marriage.
Obama’s fault. He owns it now.
That’s funny, because I mentioned the same thing to a customer the other day. I watched Baby Momma with my g/f last week, and it glorified two out of wedlock mothers having babies. I went to the Dr. Monday and the waiting area for pediatrics was adjoining my Dr’s office, and there were 4 women 18 or 19 and under. One gal looked about 15 and she had a toddler, another in a stroller, and one in the oven. (she was a permanent exchange student from south of the border)
This is our answer. Years ago, there was no way to automatically show up with your hand out and receive a check.
If you mean increased sex education and abortion, re-read the article. Europe with it's more "enlightened" attitudes toward sexuality, contraception and abortion has an even higher illegitimacy rate.
Having sex is associated with having babies. Even for married couples, some actually plan pregnancies but most children are accidents.
I fear you are naive.
Exactly the intended outcome. Tip your hat to the govt drones working to undermine the nation.
Hollywood’s glorification of this is a 24/7 drip feed to impressionable masses.
But time to stop just blaming the women.
Many of today’s men are in arrested adolescence and take the same Hollywood enticement—get out there, get a Harley, slick up your chick appeal (I’ve never seen so many adult men spending a fortune on motorcycles, expensive guitars, sailboats...can you imagine our parents generation doing this?).
Whatever happened to ‘When a man becomes a man, he puts away childish things”?
Somebody needs to be the grownups around here, someon has to lead, be a role model. Somebody’s got to resist the Hollywood drug. Men and women.
Or we’ll have a nation of botoxed, viagra-ed, baby as accessory, breast-implanted, porn addicted, cruising sensation junkies strung out on shallow sugar highs and never committing to dignity, values and multi-generational families built on a common legacy.
This will continue as long as the govt is allowed to continue to prostitute motherhood....the govt and the lawyers get to cut up the 16 billion that this industry of misery is really about.
And start holding women accountable.
You want the right to choose ladies....fine then you pay for it.
Men have been beaten up for this for 50 years and the problem is getting worse.
And men have no post conception choice.
Sorry that dog don’t hunt. While there are many Hispanics that are good Catholics, many of the young ones are finding out if they have out-of-wedlock births, they get lots of freebees.
Why do you think the RATS are making so much headway in the Hispanic community? They are getting on the dole too.
The dimensions of the Hispanic baby boom are startling. The Hispanic birthrate is twice as high as that of the rest of the American population. That high fertility rate—even more than unbounded levels of immigration—will fuel the rapid Hispanic population boom in the coming decades. By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by mid-century, twice the current ratio. In states such as California and Texas, Hispanics will be in the clear majority. Nationally, whites will drop from near 70 percent of the total population in 2000 to just half by 2050. Hispanics will account for 46 percent of the nation’s added population over the next two decades, the Pew Hispanic Center reports.
But it’s the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country—over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent of white births and 15 percent of Asian births. Only the percentage of black out-of-wedlock births—68 percent—exceeds the Hispanic rate. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html
Some Liberal nitwit will blame this on Bristol Palin. That guy Oberdinkle, comes to mind....
It looks like morality is breaking down across the board.
Single mothers raising gay children.
Make room for more prisoners!
The report states “Nonmartial birth rates are highest for Hispanic women followed by black women. Rates for non-hispanic white and Asian or Pacific-Islander women are much lower.” Definitely hitting the largest minority groups.
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