1940 - 2006: % of U.S. Births to Unwed Mothers

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Entropy

I'd be interested in seeing that data compared to above/below poverty line.

Don't matter one bit....

[Scissors]

Originally Posted by VITE1

I saw that.

Figure one shows Unwed vs Birth rate as a whole. Amazingly enough the unwed rate JUMPS as wellfare is intorduced. 1950-2000

Figure two shows number of births and birth rates. 1940 to 2000.

The discussion here is UNWED birth rate.




Why are you talking teenage birth rate when the OP is about unwed mothers?

The two are related. That's why.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by themonk

the last time I checked one didn't have to be married to bare a child.

to the determinant of the child.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Scissors

The two are related. That's why.

Did we , via any form of Welfare, support the teen agers of the 1940's and 1950's when they had their children? Did those that were unwed get government support? Or did they get married or have their families and the father pay for the costs of raising the child? Maybe even put the kids up for adoption?

The point of the OP is that we are financing bad behavior and by doing so we are increasing the number of people who have bad behavior while at the same time destroying families, neighborhoods and a whole race of people.



Single motherhood is the leading cause of Poverty and Crime yet we still subsidize it.