It puzzles me how deftly apologist can dance around irresponsible behavior with ‘stastitics’. You don’t need trigonometry to figure out 2 + 2. Take a trip to any innercity and ask the young men you find hanging around if they have any children out of wedlock(and how many different mothers). Oh, and ask them why. It is not poverty, incarceration (since they weren’t incarcerated at conception) – they do this because they think it’s OK. And, while I am at it, the young women who “allow” it have to take a hit too, because they also think it’s OK . Ironically, these same young men think that they are “good” fathers because their idea of fatherhood is completely skewed. Hustling up some money to buy a Baby Phat outfit and a pair of Timb’s fits the bill for them.
So then what? The mother goes downtown to get assistance, the father has an order of support taken out. I’ve personally known some of them to quit their jobs when their wages are garnished. Others lose their license (for years!), so now they can’t buy a car to get to the jobs that pay. But it’s a cycle that they see everyday and seem comfortable with repeating.
The problem is not the Obama’s and Cosby’s, but those whose noses are in numbers and not on the ground. We need NAACP chapters (and the like) on the corners, not on the steps of Capital Hill.
