Single Motherhood by Race

[Low End Derrick]

Interesting numbers but a bit misleading.

White women and Latinas are (probably) more likely to be married when they get pregnant.....but they often get divorced later on, ESPECIALLY white women. They'll put up with Chad until the kids are in college and then get a divorce.

This also doesn't factor in paternal involvement. Read somewhere that Black men are more involved with their kids every day than other races.

Charts like these are just fodder to make white men look good. They want ALL women to default to white men.

Yeah its just the "official" numbers of mothers who live alone.

Some of them might have their baby daddy staying round, not contributing financially and not registered as a tenant on the lease, but still part of the child's life, as one example.

 

[heavenlywings77]

Yeah its just the "official" numbers of mothers who live alone.

Some of them might have their baby daddy staying round, not contributing financially and not registered as a tenant on the lease, but still part of the child's life, as one example.

We all know this is what it is.

Because it's our community and we see it all our lives. I'm never going to let some migrant or white explain to me that some fraudulent stats they saw hold more weight than the truth.

 

[Luke Cage]

Then this is a discussion that is flawed. Two people living in the same household and raising children are more likely to be married than not.

More likely yes. but not always. Sometime people with kids from previous relationships get into relationships with each other. They get serious enough to live together but haven't necessarily taken the step of getting married yet. That's a pretty common scenario.

 

[Ohene]

Disgusting