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To: tejek who wrote (135699)	8/12/2013 8:53:37 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 149317

Great article, Tejek. Lots to chew on in that. It does make the point that for black women welfare might have been more influential in having children as their economic resources were lower than whites. It would have been interesting to see what the data would have been if they had explored birth rates for single parent whites by income level. In other words, were more poorer single white women, on a percentage basis, compared to middle and upper class white woman forming single families. That statistic combined with the statistics for black mothers may have been indicative of welfare/birth connection, but since the article doesn't go there we don't know. As for whites having children our of wedlock, I wish the article contained data or spoke to how many of those whites, as a percentage of total whites, were receiving welfare benefits as single parents. Those who had enough resources thru work or wealth don't fit into our discussion of single parents on welfare. These authors can't find a link between welfare and exploding single parent hood for whites (that is why I wish they had included the percentage totals of white welfare mothers vs. non-welfare whites) and attempt to explain white single parenthood thru reproductive technology changes and cultural changes. And that may be the case, but I don't think they have proved it--at least not in that research. They come to that conclusion, IMHO, by default. They can't find a link between welfare and white single parenthood (which is why the percentages of white single parents on welfare vs. those off it would have been helpful) so they come up with rational alternative explanations, but that doesn't mean those are the reasons for the explosion of single parent white families. As Brookings is mostly described as a "center" and "center left" research organization with 97% of its employees contributing to Democratic causes one has to wonder a bit about "bias" being part of the equation here, but I am not saying that was the case or the article isn't a useful springboard for further discussion. Thanks for posting. BUTW en.wikipedia.org PS. It would be interesting to see if a conservative research institution has explored this subject and what they have to say about it. I may poke around there and see what I can find.