Illegitimacy rates in the U.S. are available from 2012. 72.3 percent of non-Hispanic blacks are now born out-of-wedlock; 66.2 percent of American Indians/Alaska Natives; 53.3 percent of Hispanics; 29.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites; and 17.2 percent of Asians/Pacific Islanders. That’s 40.7 percent overall.
The nation spends a fortune on hopeful programs in education, training and diet in an effort to improve the lives of its citizens. Yet study after study shows that the single biggest obstacle to advancement in a child's life is being raised by a single parent. So what should be our response?
Sooner or later it will be to some politician's benefit, added and abetted by some media clique, to focus on these numbers as a problem. One can only imagine the direction. The religious right will demand everyone marry, the traditional right will find no Constitutional precedence for interference and will "abstain," while the left will want to outlaw marriage so parented kids do not have an advantage.
The nation spends a fortune on hopeful programs in education, training and diet in an effort to improve the lives of its citizens. Yet study after study shows that the single biggest obstacle to advancement in a child's life is being raised by a single parent. So what should be our response?
Sooner or later it will be to some politician's benefit, added and abetted by some media clique, to focus on these numbers as a problem. One can only imagine the direction. The religious right will demand everyone marry, the traditional right will find no Constitutional precedence for interference and will "abstain," while the left will want to outlaw marriage so parented kids do not have an advantage.
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