David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of The National Marriage Project at Rutgers University note: "Most prominent in the public discussion have been recent trends in the African American community, where evidence for a family turnaround has been the strongest. The proportion of out-of-wedlock births among black women, long the highest in the nation, declined from 70.4% in 1994 to 68.6% in 2001. Although modest, this change is the first improvement in this statistic for many decades. By the same token, the percentage of black children living in two-parent families increased from 34% to 39% between 1996 and 2002."
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posted in data on July 17, 2003 11:21 PM | t (0)
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It's about time...we as a people really need to address this issue, really be honest about the effects of not having a father has on our children. Do I think marriage is for everybody or that single motherhood is wrong? No, but surely fathers are just as important to/for children as mothers are.
And for whatever reason marriage makes it more likely that the father will stick around and be involved with his children.
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