[lbo-talk] Not Sure How I Feel About This: "Dan Quayle was Right"

[Wojtek S]

Doug: "Not getting married and having kids while unmarried is often a
result, not a cause, of poverty. I wonder if this research controls
for that. Has anyone read it?"

[WS:] I cannot get on their server, so obviously I cannot say anything
about the article itself.  However, I recall a JHU anthropologist
doing a study of teenage pregnancy in Baltimore a while ago - her main
conclusion was that having a child was used as a way of improving
social status for those on the absolute bottom of the totem-pole (i.e.
those suffering from both racism and sexism), whereas not being
married to the father of the child was not seen as a problem due to
extended family networks (mostly among females) who provided social
support.

There is also an article in one of the latest issues of ASR showing
the impact of incarceration of fathers on the family - this seems to
be a major factor contributing to single parenthood among poor women.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."