Black Illegitmacy ...

[William S. Lear]

On Tue, July 21, 1998 at 07:17:39 (-0700) Nathan Newman writes:
>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.

Nice try, but you really shouldn't be so careless (callous?) as to use
the term "illegitimate" to refer to births by single women.  The
propaganda has done its job (partly) if you do so...

Bill