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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting.

It’s wise that they are squarely addressing one of the issues that has hampered their success in myriad ways. [b]Data indicates single parent households tend to languish in poverty. Data correlates poverty with crime rates, poor health, subpar education, limited employment and housing opportunities, etc.

But the reality is that much of the stress and negative outcomes flow from single parenting in the black community. [/b]I don’t think these relationships and supports they promote will help unless people are living together and sharing bills and child rearing. [/quote]

This. It's hard to argue with reality.

But something else to consider - if many of these women had only one child, there is a good chance that at some point in that child's life if the parent isn't a substance abuser, that she would reach a point above struggling in abject poverty and for that one child, he would reach the middle class changing his and his children's life long trajectory.

It's not the first child that plunges them into poverty it's having 2, 3 or 4+[/quote]

The data actually suggests the first child does plunge them into poverty.

Typical scenario: girl gets pregnant and drops out in 10th grade. May or may not earn GED. Now she’s at a disadvantage. Limited job prospects with a GED. Tough to juggle childcare with a job that involves shifts outside of core daycare center/school hours (think: waiting tables, retail, etc. nights and weekends).

All it takes is one baby when you aren’t financially or emotionally equipped to provide.

If everyone (regardless of race or income) delayed parenting until they were married and financially secure, poverty rates would drop dramatically.

Beyoncé is a great role model: married and older when she had her first baby.[/quote]

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