Baltimore riots

[knickslions2]

Originally Posted by GPK

How can you not love the mother that came out, found her son taking part in the riots, and smacked his punk ass around in front of everyone?

https://gma.yahoo.com/baltimore-mom-...opstories.html

That was pretty awesome!!

[GPK]

Originally Posted by knickslions2

That was pretty awesome!!

Seems more of those kids looting and rioting need a mother like her.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GPK

Seems more of those kids looting and rioting need a mother like her.

Every kid needs a mother like her.

I was lucky, I had a mother and a grandmother like her.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Every kid needs a mother like her.

I was lucky, I had a mother and a grandmother like her.

I likewise had a mother like her, even with my limited intelligence, I figured out pretty quickly that my actions had consequences!

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Every kid needs a mother like her.

And a father?

72 percent of African-American children are born out of wedlock. I'm old enough to remember when that stat could never have been imagined. I wonder what changed?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by OldDog

And a father?

72 percent of African-American children are born out of wedlock. I'm old enough to remember when that stat could never have been imagined. I wonder what changed?

More than half of births to American women younger than 30 are outside marriage, research has found.

And across all ages, a staggering four in ten women are not married when they have children.


The data shows the fastest growth in the past 20 years is among white women in their 20s with some college education but no four-year degree.



not sure, but it's no longer a race thing, since all demographics are seeing an increase in that statistic.
on the other hand, out of wedlock doesn't automatically mean 'no father'.
i'd think one of the biggest reasons for the change is more women are self sufficient, and no longer see marriage as a necessity, or a prerequisite for having children.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Danzig

More than half of births to American women younger than 30 are outside marriage, research has found.

And across all ages, a staggering four in ten women are not married when they have children.


The data shows the fastest growth in the past 20 years is among white women in their 20s with some college education but no four-year degree.



not sure, but it's no longer a race thing, since all demographics are seeing an increase in that statistic.
on the other hand, out of wedlock doesn't automatically mean 'no father'.
i'd think one of the biggest reasons for the change is more women are self sufficient, and no longer see marriage as a necessity, or a prerequisite for having children.

Good news..

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...ou_d_know.html

But....perception is still reality for some:

But just because the unwed birth rate is going down doesn't mean that the panic over single motherhood is likely to recede. The majority of Americans believe crime is getting worse, but crime is actually way down since the ’90s. Most Americans also believe teen pregnancy is on the rise, when in fact it's in a sharp decline. So we'll probably continue to hear about how single mothers are responsible for every social ill imaginable.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

But just because the unwed birth rate is going down doesn't mean that the panic over single motherhood is likely to recede. The majority of Americans believe crime is getting worse, but crime is actually way down since the ’90s. Most Americans also believe teen pregnancy is on the rise, when in fact it's in a sharp decline. So we'll probably continue to hear about how single mothers are responsible for every social ill imaginable.

So true. Even when confronted with facts contradicting a position, it's very hard to get someone to change that position. Jonathan Swift put it best back in the 18th century: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Good news..

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...ou_d_know.html

But....perception is still reality for some:

But just because the unwed birth rate is going down doesn't mean that the panic over single motherhood is likely to recede. The majority of Americans believe crime is getting worse, but crime is actually way down since the ’90s. Most Americans also believe teen pregnancy is on the rise, when in fact it's in a sharp decline. So we'll probably continue to hear about how single mothers are responsible for every social ill imaginable.

The overall, unwed birth rate (number of births) is down because the overall birth rate is down. This decrease is still reason to celebrate as statistically children born to unwed mothers bear virtually every disadvantage imaginable to their counterparts born into a marriage.

The percentage of births to unwed mothers remains steady at roughly 4 in 10. If only we could get that down to 1980 rates (20%) only 2 in 10 or less would be born into a disadvantageous life/future.

The percentage of births to unmarried women declined slightly in 2013 to 40.6%, after holding steady from 2011 to 2012 at 40.7%; the percentage peaked in 2009 at 41.0%.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db162.htm

So while overall births have declined the percentage of those births born to unwed mothers have decreased 9/10 of 1% or to be specific 0.0097561.

To give some perspective, that percentage transposed into a salary raise for someone making $15 bucks an hour would come to 14 and a half cents an hour or $5.85 a week. If that's good news, so be it.