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Sure enough, Blanca grows up to be a rebellious Winona Ryder, and Pedro turns into a revolutionary played by Antonio Banderas (of Philadelphia) -- enemy of the privileges Esteban holds dear, progenitor (out of wedlock) of the granddaughter he holds dearer still. When the fascists stage their inevitable coup, it is, of course, the bastard Esteban begot in that long-ago dawn who turns up trying to torture Blanca into revealing Pedro's whereabouts...
Much of the trouble may be related to the breakdown of the traditional family. Because of divorces and births out of wedlock (the U.S. has one of the highest teenage-pregnancy rates in the world), nearly one-quarter of children live with one parent. And by choice or necessity, more than half of mothers of infants work outside the home, often having to struggle to find and afford quality child care...
Even so, welfare's flaws are under scrutiny. For a fraction of recipients, the checks create a culture of dependency in which children grow up without ever seeing members of their family go to work. Also, because half of all children on welfare were born out of wedlock, compared with just 10% for American children generally, critics accuse the system of creating financial incentives for single motherhood. Add to those sentiments an enduring voter discontent over taxes and pressure on the President to keep up his image as "new Democrat." All have combined to make welfare reform a White House...
...recognize that a lot of ((these young women)) are living in a world very different from the one we live in, not only because there's no stigma but because there are also not the kind of structural day-to-day moral supports for not having children out of wedlock. What we need is an approach that recognizes the whole problem: the family breakdown, the moral breakdown, the total absence of traditional economic opportunity...
...wedlock births per 1,000 white women ages...