Not yet... Depends on how people respond to reading the link...

Well what the article appears to be saying is that single mothers in poverty are generally not in poverty due to having children at a young age - even without the children they would probably be in poverty. That doesn't massively surprise me. What about you?

Yeah, turns out no-one was interested in this. Not even orathaic, and he posted it.

The kids out of wedlock omes from the ignorance and lack of education that come as part of the territory of being poor and captured in a culture that does not respect education, does not accept 'selling out' to white man's world and being a business success, that celebrates recieving government hand-outs...of course one single item does not follow from the other....the entire *culture* is corrupt.

Isn't white man's world anymore, at least not in the USA. My local newspaper said that 50.8% of babies born everyday, on average, are white. That means 49.2% are not. Kinda defeats 'white man's world' (trying not to sound racist here).

Then again my local newspaper isn't the epitome of reliability.

"'Selling out' to white man's world"? I don't see any mention of race in the article. The picture of a white woman with her white child.

This is not a race issue.

iT SURE AS HELL IS *PREDOMINANTLY* A RACE ISSUE...

just because the article fails to mention race does not mean that THE FACTS behind the underlying statistics do not predominantly point to particular race as the problem.

If this article were, instead, about the inequality of education, then the article would be ALL ABOUT race, indicting the white man for not properly educating the black man (who culturally rejects the education). But because this is about a "social" issue, a SELF CHOICE/DECISION issue...we leave race out of it.

Keep fooling yourselves, kiddies...

#Kingof Diplomacy...if 50.78% of the babies born are white....and white make up a hell of a lot more than 50.8% of society...than clearly thre are CULTURAL CHOICES being made in regards to haivng children. add on statistics such as Out-of-wedlock births among "minorities" and you can start to formulate a picture of the choices certain cultures make. Because these same choices go hand-in-hand with choices about finishing school, selling drugs instead of getting a job, etc....

Yes...it isn't a White Man's world any more...I agree. Everyone has an individual choice....generally this choice is influenced by your immediate culture. In certain cultures, those choices tend to be *wrong* and destructive. In other cultures...say, Indian cultures (from India, ot "naitve" americans) the choice is generally made to become highly educated...and thus the children tend to achieve this goal.

it's only when the cultural choices are self-destructive that we all bury our heads in the sand and blame society, instead of blaming individual choices, and specific cultural norms.

@krellin: You are correct...by a lot, but when it becomes 2070, only 50% or less of the people will be white.

It reminds me of something I heard recently. "All the stupid people are multiplying quick; where are the smart parents willing to educate their children?" (or get a good education for them)?

"Kinda defeats 'white man's world' "

is that not a good thing? No more dominance of others, seems like so much work infact...

This has little to do with race, the fact is poor people are more likely to have kids at a young age.

Also to have no other options than having kids at a young age, also to die younger... so really you could see it as a compressed life-span.... but the point being, having a kid doesn't make the particularly poorer. (as compared to those who don't have a kid they are about as poor, on average.)