As many of you know, a staggering, outrageous, embarrassing, totally inconceivable 70% of black children are born out of wedlock in the United States–a prescription for calamity and disaster for decades to come. What’s the deal with black men fathering (and then usually abandoning) so many out of wedlock children? Here in my office, there are at least 8 women (of all colors) that I know personally that are single mothers, nearly all of whom have a black “Baby Daddy.” There are bi-racial children around the office constantly, and if the kid is half-black, rest assured there are whispers about how “his Dad is not that involved.”
Then I came across a blog for black mothers, BeingMamaDaily, where black women, most of whom are single mothers themselves, are encouraging a pregnant woman not to have an abortion. It’s incredibly sad to hear their stories of abandonment and breakup. It seems like none of them have husbands, let alone supportive fathers for their children.
Lest you think this is a problem of the “least of us,” it is not. Illegitimacy is a rampant problem in the black middle-class, who, it seems, mimic the behavior of the black lower-classes. It’s all the same: most of the couples have broken up over this or that, and the “baby momma/baby daddy” drama has ensued–child support, court filings, Dad not being around, mad momma, excuses, etc.
TheStateOf . . . 70%. Seriously, what’s the deal? Why do black men abandon their children at such a high rate? Do black women drive the men away? And how can we change things?
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