72% of black babies are born out of wedlock...

[Fu Manchu]

I am from the future. Not sure if I ever mentioned that before.

i think we all just assumed this muddy

 

[Cami]

My point here is this an epidemic, not a fucking malady, and epidemic that affects whites, Hispanics, EVERYONE. Living in poverty, and having a child, whether married, abandoned or whatever, sucks, no matter where you are. My point here is, it happens to all kinds. Also, what Pucky said, times have changed.

edit to add:
I meant living in poverty - poverty is the epidemic, not having children. I mean as a wide spread problem not as a disease.

 

[PuckOff]

I'd also like to add that a lot of people shun organized religion these days. For example, Catholics or Catholosism frown upon couples having children out of wedlock. This was definitely frowned upon years ago, but again times have changed. Now that the younger folk (30 - 40 years of age etc.) don't give a fuck about the religion they were brought up with and a lot likely just say fuck it let's start a family no matter if we are married or not. Times have changed.

 

[vagabond]

out of wedlock is an arbitrary meaningless term.

It's a precise term. We are not talking about the label of expectation value.

 

[Archie]

Having a child is an Epidemic now?

Sign me up for the vaccine

 

[Cami]

I meant it as far as the poverty goes. Not having children. I should have been more specific.

 

[reno cool]

My point here is this an epidemic, not a fucking malady, and epidemic that affects whites, Hispanics, EVERYONE. Living in poverty, and having a child, whether married, abandoned or whatever, sucks, no matter where you are. My point here is, it happens to all kinds. Also, what Pucky said, times have changed.

edit to add:
I meant living in poverty - poverty is the epidemic, not having children. I mean as a wide spread problem not as a disease.

Of course its about poverty, thats the whole point I thought. Slavery, repression, ghetto leads to poverty. I don't think anyones implying that blacks are genetically predisposed to having out of wedlock babies.

 

[Cami]

Yeah, but I just can't stand when people focus on one group like this, when it happens to everyone. I guess putting it out there isn't the worst thing ever, I just there should be equal focus and information on the other ethnicities as well.

 

[rito]

My point here is this an epidemic, not a fucking malady, and epidemic that affects whites, Hispanics, EVERYONE. Living in poverty, and having a child, whether married, abandoned or whatever, sucks, no matter where you are. My point here is, it happens to all kinds. Also, what Pucky said, times have changed.

edit to add:
I meant living in poverty - poverty is the epidemic, not having children. I mean as a wide spread problem not as a disease.

99.9% of the worlds children live in poverty by us standards.

 

[Cami]

Yeah for a family of three the poverty level is right around 3k give or take. unreal.

 

[rito]

Yeah for a family of three the poverty level is right around 3k give or take. unreal.

No, it's not. The 2013 3 person 100% poverty level in the USA is $19,530 per year, which is $1,627 per month.

 

[Cami]

well I stand corrected.

 

[roguejuror]

Yeah, but I just can't stand when people focus on one group like this, when it happens to everyone. I guess putting it out there isn't the worst thing ever, I just there should be equal focus and information on the other ethnicities as well.

It's valid to focus just on this group because they are the ones that have been marginalized the most.

 

[Cami]

Good point Rog, but where they get all the attention, others are neglected.

 

[reno cool]

the phrase black babies does sound racist I give you that. But I think Cali was simply pointing out the struggle black people admirably face everyday.

 

[Archie]

99.9% of the worlds children live in poverty by us standards.

Yep. I think about 10 years ago or do the number that always stuck out to me is that half the 6 bullion people in the world live on less than 2 dollars a day.

Us poverty= rich most other places.

It's not just about the money, it's a mindset and culture.

 

[rito]

Big improvements in that number Archie in the 3rd world recently. It's probably half that or better now.

 

[rito]

I wonder if I qualify for gov't assistance. I made -infinity this year.