And there is, in fact, now high out-of-wedlock childbearing, almost 50 percent among Hispanics.
According to the CDC, the out-of-wedlock birthrate for white children was just 2% in the 1960s.
Almost 50 years ago, when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, the national out-of-wedlock birthrate was 7%.
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Families are smaller, birthrates have dropped, divorce and out-of-wedlock births have soared.
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So, what did change, starting around 1960, to account for the decline in marriage rates, the sharp increase in divorce, and the explosion of out-of-wedlock births?
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Redefining marriage would, by further eroding its central norms, weaken an institution that has already been battered by widespread divorce, out-of-wedlock child bearing and the like.
If he had won the nomination, and the revelations of his affair and out-of-wedlock child came to light, he might have been forced off the ballot.
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The Hispanic out-of-wedlock rate, which has been measured for a much shorter period, was below 40% in 1990 and stands at more than 50% as of the 2010 census.
In 2010 the percentage of out-of-wedlock births was 41%.
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Man and Woman: A Defense, " say, "Redefining marriage would, by further eroding its central norms, weaken an institution that has already been battered by widespread divorce, out-of-wedlock child bearing and the like.
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The rate will never reach zero, but we may expect that it will continue to decline as contraceptives improve and attitudes to out-of-wedlock birth become more accepting, and as younger generations increasingly reject abortion as an acceptable resolution of a pregnancy.
Only 16% of Asian-American babies are born out of wedlock, in contrast to 41% for the general population.
But, since the idea is to promote marriage as the best foundation for the family, at a time when almost 40% of first-born children are born out of wedlock, these rights for heterosexual partnerships do not include equality with married couples for tax purposes.
Back in 1965, 25% of black children were born out of wedlock, nearly one-third fewer.
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If you look at the children being raised out of wedlock, it is 67 percent who are being raised in two-parent households, among Hispanics.
This means ending tax and welfare incentives that discourage marriage and encourage children out of wedlock, rewarding work over unemployment benefits, and a host of other pro-poor policies.
Jennifer McKay Gold, 52, the mother of two children (now teens) born out of wedlock with Bren, filed suit in 2003, accusing him of breaking pillow-talk promises of more money.
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