Why Poverty?
According to the World Almanac 2005 – which now lists illegitimate birth rates under the politically correct heading "Nonmarital Childbearing" – nearly 70 percent of black children are born outside of wedlock. With Latinos, the rate is almost 45 percent, whites nearly 30 percent, and Asians 15 percent. Overall, about 34 percent of America's children today are born outside of wedlock.

Bearing and raising children has a big economic impact on any normal family of two married people. Out-of-wedlock births to a single mom are devastating to the chance of escaping poverty. We are not talking about mature women with good jobs deciding to have a child that they can support and raise. We are talking about mostly teenage girls who are clueless about work and responsibility and welfare queens having multiple children. This is the largest single factor in family poverty statistics. In the black community, especially, leaders we see or read in the media seem to be in total denial about this.