BASTARDS NOW 37% OF ALL BIRTHS IN USA

AP:

Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday. ... The increase in births to unwed mothers was seen in all racial groups, but rose most sharply among Hispanics. ... Out-of-wedlock births have been rising since the late 1990s.

This is a bad trend - for society and for the children. WHY?! Here:

Though many single moms do manage to bring up relatively well-adjusted kids with the help of extended families, churches and schools, the correlation between social deviancy and fatherless homes is irrefutably linked. "The lack of effective, functioning fathers is the root cause of America's social, economic and spiritual crises," writes Dr. Edwin Cole.

To wit, the truth -- and it is a hard truth for men who have abandoned their families, but a harder truth for their children: According to the CDC, DoJ, DHHS and the Bureau of the Census, the 30 percent of children who live apart from their fathers will account for

63 percent of teen suicides,
70 percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions,
71 percent of high-school dropouts,
75 percent of children in chemical-abuse centers,
80 percent of rapists,
85 percent of youths in prison,
and 85 percent of children who exhibit behavioral disorders.

In addition, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. In fact, children born to unwed mothers are 10 times more likely to live in poverty as children with fathers in the home.

"[The causal link between fatherless children and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime," notes social researcher Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, adds, "[The absence of fathers] from family life is surely the most socially consequential family trend of our era."

MORE FACTS AND FIGURES HERE. What does this all mean? That we should be cracking down on the fathers of these kids. And that we should be promoting marriage and not denigrating it.

And we should amend the US Constitution which now makes children born here of ILLEGAL residents automatic citizens - so-called "anchor babies" citizens, and thus remove the motivation many ILLEGAL immigrants have for having children - married or not. (Since most of the ILLEGAL immigrants here today are Hispanic, I infer that this is effecting their sky-rocketing fatherless child birth-rate. I blogged on a solution to this problem HERE. Excerpt:

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment reads as follows:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[We should] AMEND THE 14th AMENDMENT SO THAT IT SAYS:

"ALL PERSONS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES TO LEGAL CITIZENS..."

Simple. The present interpretation is a vestige of an earlier time - when the borders were not as porous as they have been the last two decades, and it was written when many Americans were still alive who were born in the colonies, (1866).

IT IS TIME TO MAKE THIS AMENDMENT REFLECT TODAY'S NEEDS.

This shouldn't be controversial, or a problem for the Left; after all, the Constitution was meant to be a "living document" - evolving to meet the needs of the people. HEH.

More on so-called "ANCHOR BABIES" HERE. More on why current immigration levels are unsustainable HERE - in a must see video.

BOTTOM-LINE: If we really want to eradicate childhood poverty in this country we have to eradicate out of wedlock births, increase the marriage rate, and compel husbands and fathers to be more supportive. Because there is a public cost to this problem, we must remove the incentives the state offers which promote the creation of fatherless children. These mothers and their children do not need more public welfare; they need repsonsible husbands and fathers.