Looking at a better way to deal with one parent homes

In this paper we will look at the possibility of getting single parent births back to the 1970’s level or below. The 1970’s seems to be the bench mark that most seem to use because it is a census year and right before the Contract for America. The reason that the contract for America is used is because of the welfare reform that was used after it. My idea for this is to restart the idea of orphanages system for illegitimate children. The idea of this would upset many, but we need to help the children that are being left behind. The second part of my idea is to limit the payment of welfare to only one new child. After one there will be no new payments. The last point is to close the borders.

If legalized abortion had not been available, an estimated additional 39,000 illegitimate babies and 28,000 legitimate babies would have been born in 1971 in the United States. While this makes up a small part of total births (3,500,000), the illegitimate births prevented represent almost one tenth of all out-of-wedlock children born in the country in that year. (Sklar and Berkov) Even though this seems to be a small amount in the long run but that is 67,000 babies every year. Now times that by 37 years that’s 2,479,000

Children who are in one parent households or not born at all. In 2006 we see that there is an astronomical jump in single mother births. Some will cite the differences in race but it increased across the board. In 2006, for the first time in U.S. history, a majority of
all births to women under age 30 — 50.4 percent — were out of wedlock.
Nearly 80 percent of births among black women were out of wedlock.

By comparison, when John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, just
6 percent of all births were to unmarried women under 30.
Since then, the percentages have risen across the ethnic spectrum.
One-third of white, non-Hispanic women under 30 who gave birth in 2006
were unmarried. For Hispanics, it was 51 percent. (NY Times) Now we can continue to go this way or we can look for ideas that work to reverse this trend. The trend today is welfare reform. The idea of welfare reform is going to impact the child of the single parent household.

Nearly all welfare aid for children goes to single parent households. But current research indicates that both welfare dependence and single parenthood have significant deleterious effects on children's development, impeding their ability to become successful members of mainstream society.

Prolonged welfare dependence reduces children's IQ levels. Dependence also reduces a child's earnings in future years; the longer a child remains on AFDC in childhood the lower will be his earnings as an adult. Being raised on welfare also increases the probability that a child will drop out of school and will be on welfare as an adult. Analysis shows that these effects are caused by welfare per se, not simply poverty; a poor child without welfare will do better than a similar poor child with welfare.

Out-of-wedlock childbearing and single parenthood are the principal causes of child poverty and welfare dependence in the U.S. Children raised in single parent families are more likely to: experience behavioral and emotional problems; suffer from physical abuse; engage in early sexual activity, and do poorly in school. Boys raised in single parent households are more likely to engage in crime; girls are more likely themselves to give birth outside of marriage. These effects are the result of the collapse of marriage per se rather than poverty; a poor child living with a mother and father united in marriage will do better than a similar poor child living in a single parent home. (heritage.org)

We come back to the child getting hurt. We just never get the idea that we are just going in circles and we keep making excuses for absent fathers and women who think that they do not need to have a mans influence in the child’s life.

This society now has celebrities that are having children and because they are rich and famous now we have other young women who think that the Nanny, Driver, Maid, etc are included with the deal. To bad that for many the only real line they are going to see is the WIC line, The Welfare line, the section 8 lines, and the Medicaid line. The payment system is not new in that it has been introduced before. The problem is that we are allowing people who have little to no education. Our immigration laws are dumbing down America. A shocking 55% of the new mothers of Mexican descent are not high school graduates. This compares to 28% of African-Americans, 13% of whites, and 2% of Japanese-Americans. Similarly, only 7% of Hispanic mothers had a college degree. This compares to 11% of blacks, and 30% of whites.

Among women who were born in Mexico but gave birth in America in 1998, more than two thirds lacked a high school diploma. Yet even for the 40% of ethnic Mexican mothers who were born in the U.S., three out of every eight hadn't completed 12th grade.

This is significantly worse than the African-American average - even though Mexican-Americans tend to score about halfway between the average IQ of blacks (85) and native-born whites (100). In other words, American-born Mexicans drop out 30% more than blacks despite half-a-standard deviation higher average I.Q. American society is failing to assimilate Mexican immigrants into dropping the traditional Hispanic bias against education. (VDare) We see that education and marriage is an issue if you go back to the NY Times article, there is a correlation between marriage, education, and race. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan stated in the 1990’s "In the black community, the out-of-wedlock birthrate is 69 percent. This figure astounds even Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat who issued prophetic warnings about the erosion of marriage among blacks in the early sixties. Moynihan's warning was dismissed at the time, but the breakup of the black family and the accompanying social calamities have outstripped his worst nightmares.

Ominously, the illegitimate birthrate among whites is edging toward 25 percent, almost exactly equaling the black rate when Moynihan first raised his alarm. The white family is teetering on the same precipice, heading rapidly toward the same lethal decomposition that devastated black communities in the late sixties and seventies.

Family collapse is the root cause of other social problems: poverty, crime, drug abuse and school failure. Children born out of wedlock are seven times more likely to be poor than are those born to couples who stay married. Girls raised in single-parent homes on welfare are five times more likely to give birth out of wedlock when compared with girls from intact nonwelfare families. And a boy from a single-parent home in the inner city is twice as likely to engage in crime when compared with a similar boy who is poor but living with a father and a mother. (Find articles) Now that we are looking at everything that Sen. Moynihan has said would happen, we need to look elsewhere. Even with welfare reform in all states in the union, we see that the single mother birth rates are going crazy. The last reason that I will look at is the lowering birth age of the mother, ten years of age is just not acceptable. Yet we see that the statistics are outrageous. "The report shows that between 2005 and 2006, the birth rate for teenagers 15-19 years rose 3 percent, from 40.5 live births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 years in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006. This follows a 14-year downward trend in which the teen birth rate fell by 34 percent from its recent peak of 61.8 births per 1,000 in 1991 "…..The largest increases were reported for non-Hispanic black teens, whose overall rate rose 5 percent in 2006. The rate rose 2 percent for Hispanic teens, 3 percent for non-Hispanic white teens, and 4 percent for American Indian or Alaska Native teens.

The birth rate for the youngest teens aged 10-14 declined from 0.7 to 0.6 per 1,000, and the number of births to this age group fell 5 percent to 6,405. The birth rate for older teens aged 18-19 is 73 births per 1,000 populations –- more than three times higher than the rate for teens aged 15-17 (22 per 1,000). Between 2005 and 2006, the birth rate rose 3 percent for teens aged 15-17 and 4 percent for teens aged 18-19.

The study also shows unmarried childbearing reached a new record high in 2006. The total number of births to unmarried mothers rose nearly 8 percent to 1,641,700 in 2006. This represents a 20 percent increase from 2002, when the recent upswing in nonmarital births began. The biggest jump was among unmarried women aged 25-29, among whom there was a 10 percent increase between 2005 and 2006.

In addition, the nonmarital birth rate also rose sharply, from 47.5 births per 1,000 unmarried females in 2005 to 50.6 per 1,000 in 2006 -- a 7-percent 1-year increase and a 16 percent increase since 2002.

The study also revealed that the percentage of all U.S. births to unmarried mothers increased to 38.5 percent, up from 36.9 percent in 2005.(CDC)

The massive numbers have shown that this problem is out of control, but still I hear those women are just tired of waiting for the right guy. They are tired of waiting for a man who will be responsible. I understand that women are tired, but why have a child. Why bring another person into the mess and not give it all the opportunities that are out there. One of these is a Dad, with a job.

Resources:

Abortion, Illegitimacy, and the American Birth Rate.

June Sklar 1 and Beth Berkov 2 .

1 International Population and Urban Research, University of California, Berkeley.
2 Family Health Services Section, California State Department of Health.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/opinion/21herbert.html?ex=1371787200&en=0101d3cbd0bf2eb0&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/Test031501b.cfm.

http://www.vdare.com/Sailer/birth_rates.htm.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n12_v12/ai_18134548.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/07newsreleases/teenbirth.htm.