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Birth. More than half of all black infants are born out of wedlock -- and in the inner cities, that figure can reach...
...American values: generosity and self-reliance. Yes, we must offer the poor a hand. But doesn't such help undermine their ability to help themselves? Conservative scholars like Charles Murray contend that Aid to Families with Dependent Children provided an economic incentive for women to have babies out of wedlock and for men to avoid supporting their children. Murray goes too far, but his argument is now a tenet of the welfare debate. Experts no longer argue about how much money people should receive, but what work requirements should be attached to what they...
...produced his "dark side," his insistence on self-reliance, and his often bitter sense of humor. Jesse Jackson's character and drive were nourished in the subculture of the segregated black South, and his insatiable quest for legitimacy and respect are the product of having been born out of wedlock and constantly being reminded of that fact in his youth. Likewise, Al Gore Jr.'s precociousness comes from his overwhelming desire to do twice as well as expected, so as not to be seen as coasting on his father's coattails...
...last 20 years, there have been drastic increases in the rates of violent crime among Blacks, the number of female-headed Black households under the poverty line, out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancy. Recent longitudinal studies have shown that 60 percent of all those in poverty are long-term poor who will be in poverty for spells of eight or more years; female-headed households are disproportionately represented...
...employed Black men per 100 black women. This drastic decline in the MMPI is, Wilson argues, one of the main causes of the tendency to delay marriage and the low rate of marriage among Black women--which both contribute to the number of female-headed households and out-of-wedlock births...