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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246402)	3/4/2014 12:39:55 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542196

. . . .one would assume it was coming off a very low base to start. Nope. We don't have base measures beyond the point of the records to which you refer. Moreover, a shame culture persists in hiding events like this. Studying cultural change at the macro level to which you refer for social policy purposes tends to be "best guess" methodology. I would guess that if these studies show increasing out of wedlock births correlated (need good study design) to increasing welfare payments, it might well be simply reporting increases. That's generally the most obvious explanation for these kinds of increases. But you cannot know what is not reported. That's my point. But if you could find the urls for the studies you have in mind which are the basis for your point that denying benefits for out of wedlock births would decrease those births such that it would justify the obvious suffering it would cause, please do so.