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Thread #99746   Message #2045756
Posted By: Dickey
07-May-07 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Please explain where I am "Blaming poverty on illegitimate children or single parent families"

Poverty is the result of illegitimate children and/or single parent
families.

Social scientists have demonstrated conclusively that divorce, illegitimacy, and lack of fathering contribute to poverty, poor achievement in school and throughout life, greater crime, greater drug abuse, lower mortality, poorer health, and a litany of social ills. Truly four out of five children will not grow up with an intact family by the year 2010. The poverty rate for a child in a single-parent home is six times above that of a child in a married, two-parent home. Typically, the household income of a divorced family declines 37 percent.

# Research suggests a connection between positive fathering during childhood and maintaining long-term marriages and close friendships during adulthood. (Franz, McLelland & Weinberger, 1991)
# A white female growing up fatherless is 2½ times more likely to have a child out of wedlock. 40 percent of the fatherless white females do not finish high school.
# 70 percent of the African-American males without fathers do not finish high school.
However, in Chattanooga, 74 percent of those polled agreed that "in most cases, children raised in a home with both natural parents grow up more stable emotionally than do children with one parent." Only 18 percent strongly agreed that "most fathers in Chattanooga are sufficiently involved in raising their children," while 24 percent agree somewhat.

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