Black Illegitmacy and Married Births or How to savage the poor with statistics

[Nathan Newman]

Here is an interesting article on the massive drop in births by married
black families.  The importance of this is that, all things being equal,
illegitimate births would naturally be rising as a percentage of all black
births without ANY increase in "pathological" behavior by black single
mothers, despite propaganda to that effect.  Note the last line about
black birthrates by single mothers being at a 40-year low.

July 21, 1998

       Married Blacks May Have Less Kids

       By The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Married, middle-class black families increasingly are
having smaller families, a result of higher incomes, more education and
movement away from relatives who can help with child care, The New York
Times reported today.

       In 1970, married black women gave birth to 357,262 babies, the
Times said. In 1996, the last year for which statistics are available, the
figure was 179,568, a decline of nearly 50 percent and nearly twice the
drop in the birth rate among married white women.

       Experts say the trend means that married black couples -- whose
median income is approaching parity with whites -- are able to give their
children more of the advantages of enhanced economic status, like better
housing and schools and more opportunities for cultural enrichment.

       The trend of married blacks having fewer children means a higher
percentage of black children are born outside marriage. However, the
percentage of single black women giving birth reached a 40-year low in
1996.