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For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage
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nytimes.com — LORAIN, Ohio — It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.
Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America. The fastest growth in the last two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree, according to Child Trends, a Washington research group that analyzed government data.

Among mothers of all ages, a majority — 59 percent in 2009 — are married when they have children. But the surge of births outside marriage among younger women — nearly two-thirds of children in the United States are born to mothers under 30 — is both a symbol of the transforming family and a hint of coming generational change.

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What has caused this change in the Nation's moral character?
1. FDR and his introduction of government funded welfare.
4.8%
2. LBJ and his "Great Society" causing the breakup of the family and substituting welfare for fathers.
0%
3. William Clinton and his destruction of whatever morals were remaining after FDR and LBJ.
0%
4. Liberalism pushing welfare as a career choice over education and working.
19%
5. Discovery of alcohol as a means of giving liberal women a chance to form relationships and get dates.
4.8%
6. Liberalism and progressivism have removed all the stigma from illegitimacy in order to break down the family unit.
71%
This is not a scientific survey, click here to learn more. Results may not total 100% due to rounding and voting descrepencies.
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Julia
Posted 454 days ago
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Who died and made you the Moral police.

The Nation's Moral character is just fine, it's people like you that claim to be above the rest, who think they are better than the rest. Again just like I told you last time, if you don't like it help your self out and go live in Saudi Arabia. Everything will work out for you over there, you can also OWN yourself a woman and be a real CONSERVATIVE man or should I say PIG.

Again Go To HELL, that's where you really belong, and not in this GREAT COUNTRY.
lightdude
Posted 454 days ago
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@Julia Typical angry left wing liberal like doobie blabbermouth and moochelle.
945call
Posted 454 days ago
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@Julia

Actually it is you who should move, to a primative culture that hasn't benefitted from thousands of years of creating a moral construct that values life and establishes the requisite guidelines to permit people to live as close together as possible while providing a sense of safety in numbers. You believe all those cultural mores are a waste of your time. So go live in the Amazon jungle where you can srew like the animals who like you have no concept of a communal moral compass.
Julia
Posted 454 days ago
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Who died and made you the Moral police.

The Nation's Moral character is just fine, it's people like you that claim to be above the rest, who think they are better than the rest. Again just like I told you last time, if you don't like it help your self out and go live in Saudi Arabia. Everything will work out for you over there, you can also OWN yourself a woman and be a real CONSERVATIVE man or should I say PIG.

Again Go To HELL, that's where you really belong, and not in this GREAT COUNTRY.
Julia
Posted 454 days ago
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Lightdude - you can join him too. If you have a problem with free women.

Angry people are the people who are not getting their way. Too bad….
lightdude
Posted 454 days ago
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@Julia You sure are angry. If you have an issue, get a tissue.
grandmakdw
Posted 454 days ago
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Our current society has convinced women like Julia that men are the problem in our society. It has also convinced women that we don't need men, at all, period. Men are not necessary for a fulfilled life, they are not necessary to have children (we can clone if we need to thank you very much). They are the problem and the only way for society to make it is to feminize our boys and to rejoice when they are gay because that means they are more like women then men. This is also the attitude of most of the liberal/progressive women I know. This attitude has been pushed on society to the point where women feel that not only are men not needed to have children, they aren't needed to raise children. The liberal mindset is that being feminine is the only right way for people to behave. Look at our president, he is the wimpiest and most whipped guy around, perfect for Julia, I'm sure.
945call
Posted 454 days ago
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@grandmakdw

Well said
JBeal
Posted 454 days ago
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Grandma - you're probably old school and if you're satisfied being dominated that's fine. But don't criticize others who have made great strides to advance in life.

Men and women need each other equally, women don't need pigs.

Pigs exist because of people like you who have been for years whipped and pushed around. Maybe it's too late for you now since you relied on the income of your husband all your life.

Go do your husband's laundry now.
lightdude
Posted 454 days ago
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@JBeal Men don't need pigs either. I have met a lot of sows in my life. The liberal left is full of them. Doobie blabbermouth, Moochelle, Nasty Pooploosley to start. Can't forget jbeal.
lastbaldeagle
Posted 454 days ago
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Julia, I especially added the choice regarding alcohol just for you as I knew it would get your little knees a jerkin'. Have you ever dated a person from the opposite sex? You are one of the feminazi far left from all your hateful comments and total lack of humor. Why did you hate your father so? That is, if you ever knew just who he was?

BTW, it was a great country prior to Liberalism allowing idiots like you to enter. Are you a legal citizen? You seem more like a leftover from the 1960's. Were you a creation of artificial insemination?
Julia
Posted 454 days ago
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Poooor bastard….

You've been dumped and you're an angry bitter drunk old white man.

Ohh you also must have had a woman boss at one point who probably rode you like an ass.

Put yourself to the side curb you're just not worth it, you'll be picked up on schedule.
lightdude
Posted 453 days ago
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@Julia Julia, you might wipe your face. You have some bobo stuff on it.
grandmakdw
Posted 454 days ago
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People, people, civility please. We are in a forum to discuss issues, not to name call each other. FYI, I'm a college professor, so be careful about assumptions and adding those assumptions to name calling.
lightdude
Posted 453 days ago
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@grandmakdw You are talking to uncivil people.
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