Family Security Matters

Posted on: Family Security
Matters (February 25, 2009)

Heading: Fatherless Families
Contribute to the Destabilization
of American Society

Excerpt:

In 1998, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and
Cornel West acknowledged that:
“The other face of fatherlessness
is the rapidly growing number of
out-of-wedlock births and the
virtual absence of men in these
new single-mother families. The
statistics are dramatic.”


Cornel West, an African American
Marxist-style academic, is hard to
characterize as a white patriarch,
however. Ditto Hewlett. Best to
snub them, right?


Anyway, here’s what they found
in the Clinton period (and it
wasn’t a stained dress):
“Teenage unwed motherhood is
rising among whites, but it is still
much more common in the black
community. One out of every
three black mothers is an unwed
teenager, and a third go on to
have a second child while still in
their teens.”

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