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%.
Among black children, the out-of-wedlock birthrate has skyrocketed from 20% in the 1960s to a heartbreaking 72% today.
He warned about the catastrophic out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks, which was at that time less than 25%.
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And the problem of out-of-wedlock births is not only a black problem, as Charles Murray shows in his new book.
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.
You will eventually discover an out-of-wedlock child, or visits to prostitutes or a mistress, or, in, the worst-case scenario, become the subject of sexual assault yourself.
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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In speaking about social breakdown in those minority communities, the president put the gun issue in the context of high rates of out-of-wedlock births that lead to high rates of childhood poverty.
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The Lisa was named after the out-of-wedlock daughter Jobs had abandoned, just as Jobs had felt abandoned by his own birth parents, who had given him up for adoption as an infant.
If you go to high schools in heavily Hispanic districts - and I would invite anybody to spend time in the Los Angeles Unified School District - you will find a culture of out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy, truancy, a high dropout rate.
But a critic who points out that this so-called culture is defeatist and damaging because it leads to high drop-out rates, record black-on-black murder statistics and a record number of out-of-wedlock births is dismissed as a prude and a censor.
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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