If you believe that I am trying to get your goat that is not true. Real dialogue is needed by level headed people. No extremes like we see here by most of us at times. The real movers and shakers. The ones who do not get "paid" by shaking down people in all backgrounds. There are people like that. It is just that we buried them somewhere for our drama laden society. Whatever issues there are. We need to reduce the worst ones a bit. There is bitterness by a lot of people including me at times. And you seem to have a bit in you. You are right about me telling you what to do. I am telling you a major problem though. Most groups have drug problems also. Believe me I know. We need to attack these things to at least reduce them so people can live better. Because as I get older I want more of my money. I am not rich. Contrary to your opinions. Demographics for taxation in future years is not good. We are taxed at 15% for social security/medicare. All of it goes into the general fund. 3 million baby boomers are retiring a year for at least 15 more years. A few years ago it was estimated that 56 million Americans were on social security. It will peak at 100 million people in the next 15 years. And that is with most of them not paying that 15% and collecting checks also. And the medical...oh the medical...This does not include the current 12 million collecting disability checks with an estimated half of them questionable. And the rest of the social welfare programs. See what I am saying. Money is going to get tight for services.
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Sometimes it's wise not to comment on things you know nothing about.
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You gotta drop the belief of blacks shaking down people because of race before a dialog can take place.
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You and I both know I am not mentally defected so why must you hurl needless insults? You think they help your case? no, they make you seem like another unhinged Leftist. That's what they do.
I'm not saying we don't need MORE black teachers, I'm saying we don't HAVE them. So, what should we do? Insist black kids not go to school cause there's no black teachers?
Maybe white teachers should insist black kids be taken out of their classes?
What?
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The green line is black, non-hispanic. 70% of babies born out of wedlock. The blue line is white. Just over 30% of babies born out of wedlock. So yeah, if you add up TOTAL numbers, it's all skewed because blacks are a minority. But if you look at percentages, you have a problem in family life.
Trends in Unmarried Childbearing Point to a Coming Apart
Actually that's untrue since half of ALL marriages end in divorce. And out of wedlock births is a term used by whites like you that misses a few realities of MODERN family life.
Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to non-Hispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried.
It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with…” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.”
There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity.
Josh Levs points this out in his new book, “All In,” in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.”
The Washington Post reported last year:
“The share of unmarried couples who opted to have ‘shotgun cohabitations’ — moving in together after a pregnancy — surpassed ‘shotgun marriages’ for the first time during the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community.
Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.
Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.
Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
I will not be debating you in the area of music. When you discuss that I will STFU. Because that's the area you study and are paid to know. You are an expert on that issue. But when it comes to this, you are not and I am the one who has studied this and is paid to know it. Your opinion is not grounded in fact or reality.
In the black community, out of wedlock births are not the problem. Economic development is and it is due to at least 243 years of racist laws and policy that created a huge gap in wealth accumulation.
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The green line is black, non-hispanic. 70% of babies born out of wedlock. The blue line is white. Just over 30% of babies born out of wedlock. So yeah, if you add up TOTAL numbers, it's all skewed because blacks are a minority. But if you look at percentages, you have a problem in family life.
Trends in Unmarried Childbearing Point to a Coming Apart
Actually that's untrue since half of ALL marriages end in divorce. And out of wedlock births is a term used by whites like you that misses a few realities of MODERN family life.
Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to non-Hispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried.
It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with…” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.”
There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity.
Josh Levs points this out in his new book, “All In,” in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.”
The Washington Post reported last year:
“The share of unmarried couples who opted to have ‘shotgun cohabitations’ — moving in together after a pregnancy — surpassed ‘shotgun marriages’ for the first time during the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community.
Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.
Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.
Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
I will not be debating you in the area of music. When you discuss that I will STFU. Because that's the area you study and are paid to know. You are an expert on that issue. But when it comes to this, you are not and I am the one who has studied this and is paid to know it. Your opinion is not grounded in fact or reality.
In the black community, out of wedlock births are not the problem. Economic development is and it is due to at least 243 years of racist laws and policy that created a huge gap in wealth accumulation.
First of all I do not think the problem of unmarried black mothers is simple or has one cause. I do not think it is due to anything flawed in the black "race" or something like that. I think it has multiple causes. But to pretend it's not a problem and does not contribute to the success of black children is just naive beyond comprehension. OF COURSE it does. Black children are first human children. They do BEST when in the homes of their biological mother and children who are married.
Secondly you absolutely did debate me on music: the African Amer. Spiritual. Recall I did not ask you to "shut your mouth", nor do I ever. I might tell someone they don't know what they're talking about, but I don't...what do you call is..."de-platform" them. What is that, anyway? It's fascism, it comes from fascist impulses.
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Your arguments show that you suffer from the inability to understand reality. The only unhinged person here is you. You conflated things I have said and posted some lunacy whites always use when they are told by someone black that they really don't know anything about us and then try telling me I am the unhinged one. Then you argue a silly argument about unwed births.
In the last post you asked some stupid questions because you were offended because I told you that your right wing beliefs hinder the development of black children. Schools need to hire more black, Hispanic, Asian, etc, teachers whenever possible and increased racial education for teachers is also necessary.
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The green line is black, non-hispanic. 70% of babies born out of wedlock. The blue line is white. Just over 30% of babies born out of wedlock. So yeah, if you add up TOTAL numbers, it's all skewed because blacks are a minority. But if you look at percentages, you have a problem in family life.
Trends in Unmarried Childbearing Point to a Coming Apart
Actually that's untrue since half of ALL marriages end in divorce. And out of wedlock births is a term used by whites like you that misses a few realities of MODERN family life.
Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to non-Hispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried.
It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with…” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.”
There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity.
Josh Levs points this out in his new book, “All In,” in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.”
The Washington Post reported last year:
“The share of unmarried couples who opted to have ‘shotgun cohabitations’ — moving in together after a pregnancy — surpassed ‘shotgun marriages’ for the first time during the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community.
Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.
Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.
Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
I will not be debating you in the area of music. When you discuss that I will STFU. Because that's the area you study and are paid to know. You are an expert on that issue. But when it comes to this, you are not and I am the one who has studied this and is paid to know it. Your opinion is not grounded in fact or reality.
In the black community, out of wedlock births are not the problem. Economic development is and it is due to at least 243 years of racist laws and policy that created a huge gap in wealth accumulation.
First of all I do not think the problem of unmarried black mothers is simple or has one cause. I do not think it is due to anything flawed in the black "race" or something like that. I think it has multiple causes. But to pretend it's not a problem and does not contribute to the success of black children is just naive beyond comprehension. OF COURSE it does. Black children are first human children. They do BEST when in the homes of their biological mother and children who are married.
Secondly you absolutely did debate me on music: the African Amer. Spiritual. Recall I did not ask you to "shut your mouth", nor do I ever. I might tell someone they don't know what they're talking about, but I don't...what do you call is..."de-platform" them. What is that, anyway? It's fascism, it comes from fascist impulses.
And the only one with fascist instincts is you. I say you need to be quiet because what you believe is patently false. I do not debate you about music overall, I did challenge you on African American spirituals because I grew up in a black church with a father who was a preacher and mother who sung such gospels. You have no experience being black, no knowledge of black families but here you are arguing about problems in the black community and telling a person who lives in that community how they are wrong or don't speak for blacks who live in the communities like the one I live in.
The problem in the black community is not out of wedlock births. Now that's just the way it is. The problem begins and ends with a lack of economic power and that was not created by not being married and having children.
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You might be able to understand stats, but it is a matter of your inability to understand the correct stats.
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The green line is black, non-hispanic. 70% of babies born out of wedlock. The blue line is white. Just over 30% of babies born out of wedlock. So yeah, if you add up TOTAL numbers, it's all skewed because blacks are a minority. But if you look at percentages, you have a problem in family life.
Trends in Unmarried Childbearing Point to a Coming Apart
Actually that's untrue since half of ALL marriages end in divorce. And out of wedlock births is a term used by whites like you that misses a few realities of MODERN family life.
Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to non-Hispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried.
It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with…” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.”
There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity.
Josh Levs points this out in his new book, “All In,” in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.”
The Washington Post reported last year:
“The share of unmarried couples who opted to have ‘shotgun cohabitations’ — moving in together after a pregnancy — surpassed ‘shotgun marriages’ for the first time during the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community.
Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.
Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.
Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
I will not be debating you in the area of music. When you discuss that I will STFU. Because that's the area you study and are paid to know. You are an expert on that issue. But when it comes to this, you are not and I am the one who has studied this and is paid to know it. Your opinion is not grounded in fact or reality.
In the black community, out of wedlock births are not the problem. Economic development is and it is due to at least 243 years of racist laws and policy that created a huge gap in wealth accumulation.
First of all I do not think the problem of unmarried black mothers is simple or has one cause. I do not think it is due to anything flawed in the black "race" or something like that. I think it has multiple causes. But to pretend it's not a problem and does not contribute to the success of black children is just naive beyond comprehension. OF COURSE it does. Black children are first human children. They do BEST when in the homes of their biological mother and children who are married.
Secondly you absolutely did debate me on music: the African Amer. Spiritual. Recall I did not ask you to "shut your mouth", nor do I ever. I might tell someone they don't know what they're talking about, but I don't...what do you call is..."de-platform" them. What is that, anyway? It's fascism, it comes from fascist impulses.
And the only one with fascist instincts is you. I say you need to be quiet because what you believe is patently false. I do not debate you about music overall, I did challenge you on African American spirituals because I grew up in a black church with a father who was a preacher and mother who sung such gospels. You have no experience being black, no knowledge of black families but here you are arguing about problems in the black community and telling a person who lives in that community how they are wrong or don't speak for blacks who live in the communities like the one I live in.
The problem in the black community is not out of wedlock births. Now that's just the way it is. The problem begins and ends with a lack of economic power and that was not created by not being married and having children.
Being born to single mothers makes children poorer.
Now that's just the way it is
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Why do you keep running away from the question of why you folks want to increase the number of unwanted pregnancies, abortions, and STDs? This is obviously a cult thing. I think that you obediently kept your knees together as a "holy girl," as commanded by your masters, who were themselves out ******* everything still breathing. I'm just trying to get to the root of this hypocrisy of your cult and the republican party. You are the ones who elected a lifelong whore to be president, who then appointed a person who hates sex and heterosexuality but somehow got a son, to administer our family-planning funds, affecting both millions of Americans and more overseas. You apparently have no reasonable answer. Why attack heterosexuals?
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The green line is black, non-hispanic. 70% of babies born out of wedlock. The blue line is white. Just over 30% of babies born out of wedlock. So yeah, if you add up TOTAL numbers, it's all skewed because blacks are a minority. But if you look at percentages, you have a problem in family life.
Trends in Unmarried Childbearing Point to a Coming Apart
Actually that's untrue since half of ALL marriages end in divorce. And out of wedlock births is a term used by whites like you that misses a few realities of MODERN family life.
Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
One of the most persistent statistical bludgeons of people who want to blame black people for any injustice or inequity they encounter is this: According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.), in 2013 in nearly 72 percent of births to non-Hispanic black women, the mothers were unmarried.
It has always seemed to me that embedded in the “If only black men would marry the women they have babies with…” rhetoric was a more insidious suggestion: that there is something fundamental, and intrinsic about black men that is flawed, that black fathers are pathologically prone to desertion of their offspring and therefore largely responsible for black community “dysfunction.”
There is an astounding amount of mythology loaded into this stereotype, one that echoes a history of efforts to rob black masculinity of honor and fidelity.
Josh Levs points this out in his new book, “All In,” in a chapter titled “How Black Dads Are Doing Best of All (But There’s Still a Crisis).” One fact that Levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in America live with their children: “There are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.”
The Washington Post reported last year:
“The share of unmarried couples who opted to have ‘shotgun cohabitations’ — moving in together after a pregnancy — surpassed ‘shotgun marriages’ for the first time during the last decade, according to a forthcoming paper from the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community.
Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.
Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.
Opinion | Black Dads Are Doing Best of All
I will not be debating you in the area of music. When you discuss that I will STFU. Because that's the area you study and are paid to know. You are an expert on that issue. But when it comes to this, you are not and I am the one who has studied this and is paid to know it. Your opinion is not grounded in fact or reality.
In the black community, out of wedlock births are not the problem. Economic development is and it is due to at least 243 years of racist laws and policy that created a huge gap in wealth accumulation.
First of all I do not think the problem of unmarried black mothers is simple or has one cause. I do not think it is due to anything flawed in the black "race" or something like that. I think it has multiple causes. But to pretend it's not a problem and does not contribute to the success of black children is just naive beyond comprehension. OF COURSE it does. Black children are first human children. They do BEST when in the homes of their biological mother and children who are married.
Secondly you absolutely did debate me on music: the African Amer. Spiritual. Recall I did not ask you to "shut your mouth", nor do I ever. I might tell someone they don't know what they're talking about, but I don't...what do you call is..."de-platform" them. What is that, anyway? It's fascism, it comes from fascist impulses.
And the only one with fascist instincts is you. I say you need to be quiet because what you believe is patently false. I do not debate you about music overall, I did challenge you on African American spirituals because I grew up in a black church with a father who was a preacher and mother who sung such gospels. You have no experience being black, no knowledge of black families but here you are arguing about problems in the black community and telling a person who lives in that community how they are wrong or don't speak for blacks who live in the communities like the one I live in.
The problem in the black community is not out of wedlock births. Now that's just the way it is. The problem begins and ends with a lack of economic power and that was not created by not being married and having children.
Being born to single mothers makes children poorer.
Now that's just the way it is
Wrong.
Lack of wealth or employment does that.
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It is when it affects my economic opportunities.
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We try to be nice about these things. Sometimes it is wise to be quiet when told. Tom Nichols points out a major problem in America in his book, "The Death of Expertise ." Everybody is an expert on everything anymore. Nowhere is this madness more evident than in discussions on race.
Single mom statistics
There are 10 million single mother-lead families in the United States [1]. This is 3x the number in 1960. In addition:
Older single mom statistics
Single moms' education and income
58% of single moms have attended college or have at least a bachelor’s degree [2]
Of millennial moms who have babies outside of marriage, 67% have some college education, and 32% have four or more years of higher education. [3]
Single moms are overwhelmingly doing it all alone
There are 1.2 million divorces in the United States each year. [1]
Traditional nuclear families with two married heterosexual parents are now the minority of U.S. The rise of single motherhood is the largest influence on this trend — followed by gay families, multigenerational families and . [6]
46% millennials and 44% GenXers say “Marriage is becoming obsolete.”
Single motherhood by age, race and class
“Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.
"The fastest growth in the last two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree. "
Black dads spend more time, and more quality time with their children than any other race
Considering the fact that “black fatherhood” is a phrase that is almost always accompanied by the word “crisis” in U.S. society, it’s understandable that the CDC’s results seem innovative.
But in reality, the new data builds upon years of research that’s concluded that hands-on parenting is similar among dads of all races, and the CDC found that black dads are more involved with their kids on a daily basis than dads from other racial groups.
Single mom statistics: Surprising facts about today's single moms
Single mom statistics
There are 10 million single mother-lead families in the United States [1]. This is 3x the number in 1960. In addition:
- 25% of families are headed by single moms. [2].
- 40% of babies born in the United States are born to single mothers. [2]
- 57% of babies born to millennials were out of wedlock.
- 64% of millennial moms reported at least one birth out of wedlock.
Older single mom statistics
- 48% jump in births to unmarried women aged 35-39 (2007-12)
- 29% jump in births to unmarried moms aged 40-44
Single moms' education and income
58% of single moms have attended college or have at least a bachelor’s degree [2]
Of millennial moms who have babies outside of marriage, 67% have some college education, and 32% have four or more years of higher education. [3]
Single moms are overwhelmingly doing it all alone
- 49% of custodial parents have child support agreements (informal or formal), but only 45% received all child support owed.
- The median sum due is less than $400 per month. [1]
- Of fathers who live apart from their children, only 22% of dads see their kids more than once per week. [5]
There are 1.2 million divorces in the United States each year. [1]
Traditional nuclear families with two married heterosexual parents are now the minority of U.S. The rise of single motherhood is the largest influence on this trend — followed by gay families, multigenerational families and . [6]
46% millennials and 44% GenXers say “Marriage is becoming obsolete.”
Single motherhood by age, race and class
“Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.
"The fastest growth in the last two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree. "
Black dads spend more time, and more quality time with their children than any other race
Considering the fact that “black fatherhood” is a phrase that is almost always accompanied by the word “crisis” in U.S. society, it’s understandable that the CDC’s results seem innovative.
But in reality, the new data builds upon years of research that’s concluded that hands-on parenting is similar among dads of all races, and the CDC found that black dads are more involved with their kids on a daily basis than dads from other racial groups.
Single mom statistics: Surprising facts about today's single moms
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Which can be argued from facts and evidence. Unless your only argument is "you don't know what it's like to be black", in which case you are correct. Of course you don't know what it's like to be a woman, or a mother...so what? Identity Argument is boring ultimately; it's lazy intellectually and quickly comes to a dead end. Again you are right: I don't know what it's like to be black and wouldn't presume to. But that you do not know what it's like to be a mother doesn't mean you have no arguments to make when it comes to parenting.
Those arguments are lazy and are meant to browbeat. I have no respect for the former and the latter, obviously, does not intimidate me.
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Video offers a good recap of the 26-year continuing policy with every US administration to destroy Iran.- Started by Invisibleflash
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