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Posted by: KeithMcDuffee 2 years, 5 months agoBirths to unmarried women, and births by C-section, hit record highs in 2005, according to the CDC's annual "vital statistics" report.
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LABELDUDE
Feb. 7, 2007, 11 a.m."...record-high birth rate for unmarried women: in 2005, 47.6 births per 1,000 women."
I'm surprised it's this high since the Religious Sickos in the U.S.A. punish this behavior so severely.
The fact that the Gummint even reports such a thing as "birth rates for unmarried women" illustrates how insidiously Religion has jammed its nose into every facet of our lives.
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sue2008
Feb. 7, 2007, 11:32 a.m.it is ok for unmarried women to give birth but when a doctor wants to take a blood sample to test the newborn then it is against their religion.
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jeffery1
Feb. 7, 2007, 11:46 a.m.Great, more and more uneeded people. How selfish are people that they see meeting their desire to have a baby is more important than providing for those already here? There's something very wrong with us, that we celebrate conception and birth while we ignore the devastation that an ever increasing human population causes.
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Diamondgirl
Feb. 7, 2007, 12:17 p.m.Selfish AND greedy... you get more money from the Government to take care of the kids... and then the woman doesn't have to work. Just stay home, poppin' em out. A burden for the rest of us.
This isn't about religion, this is about common sense, decent morality - providing for and taking care of what YOU create!! i.e., for your own children. Everyone else has to pick up the slack for these greedy people. We all pay for it, one way or another.
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butterflycircus
Feb. 7, 2007, 12:35 p.m.Growing social dichotomy. Religious conservatism getting stricter each day at battle with liberal social norms getting looser each day. It would be nice if there was abstinence before marriage like decades ago just so unmarried females wouldn't end up pregnant & with her man running away from her, but that's all in the past. We can't go back to the so-called cushy comfy 'innocent' 1950s anymore (that had unsafe back-alley taboo abortion procedures either). The fact: there will always be people that have sex outside marriage regardless of religious teachings or any laws legalized by religious lawmakers. Religious people have the freedom NOT to have sex outside marriage; no liberal is going to make religious people change their own point of view. Why must liberals then change for religious people? It only makes sense to keep birth control readily available for liberals & let religious people practice their own abstinence for themselves. Then everybody gets what they want.
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michael104852
Feb. 7, 2007, 1:06 p.m.Wow. I feel like I'm leaning to the left.
Do any normal people participate in these blogs?
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itsme2
Feb. 7, 2007, 1:10 p.m.Forget the religious or even moralistic views here. The worst part about this is the fact that these children do not have a father. Fact is children with a father in thier lives are more likely to do better in life, not to say this is true in all situations but in most. These kids are the ones suffering for the parents not wanting to be held down.
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Dsb2k6
Feb. 7, 2007, 1:39 p.m.http://www.answers.com/father&r=67
Not one of these definitions says anything about having to be married to be a father. Marriage is a religious institution and while I chose to marry due to my religious beliefs I dont see it as being even close to neccesary to raise a child. My first child was born out of wedlock, I dont have an std and my child sees me everyday. Of course, there are religious nutcases on both sides of my family who wont even say hello to me or my children due to what they have been brainwashed to believe.
I believe itsme2 has misunderstood what an unwed birth is. It doesnt mean that the children have no father, which would be impossible. It means that the parents werent married when the child was born.
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Tigra
Feb. 7, 2007, 1:57 p.m.Women dont NEED to be married in today's society in order to raise or support a family. Some men, especially in extreme religious sects cant grasp the fact that they are DISPENSABLE!! HAHA!
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unorthodoxic
Feb. 7, 2007, 2 p.m.Religion may dictate the behavioral standards of its members. It may preach those standards to others. What it may not do is regulate the behavior of those outside their particular organization. If you study history you will discover that children of married couples were without fathers present for most of their lives. Sea captains, soldiers, salesmen, ranchers, etc. etc. etc. All men whose jobs kept them away for months or years at a time. Amazingly, we look back on those folks as paragons of morality. How did they get that way without fathers? Is a puzzlement. My father was away in WWII until I was 3. Many mothers were widowed, and remained unmarried for years while they raised their children. The "Leave It To Beaver" family is fiction, folks. Get real and look at the world as it is and has been, not through the eyes of Ladies Home Journal.
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sue2008
Feb. 7, 2007, 2:19 p.m.if you read closely the majority of unmarried women giving births are bt the ages of 15 and 19. Is the 19 yr-old-boy (father)--or maybe younger-- going to show any type of responsibilities for this unwanted baby?
why is 15-yr-old kid having sex anyways??are not they supposed to be playing computer games or sports?
i wish they teach the girls and the boys to wait untill they are mature enough in case something like that happens. maybe they do but the kids are tooo horny to listen
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Diamondgirl
Feb. 7, 2007, 3:10 p.m.I stand by my first post, and to Jordan11, I wasn't referring TO YOU. YOU are responsible evidently, and proud of it... I'm talking about the people that keep making babies together & choose NOT to get married, because they will lose their social security & welfare benefits!! I know of one such case by the way, and these folks are WHITE. There not meth addicts, as far as I know anyway, they are just taking all they can get from the US Government... This isn't about race, its about taking responsibility.
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kwsoonerdoc1
Feb. 7, 2007, 3:33 p.m.Children certainly benefit from having a relationship with both parents as long as there is no abuse or neglect. It is important to have a female and male role model. Sometimes circumstances arise which result in a one parent home. This will always be the case to some degree.
None of that bothers me much. What bothers me is spending my hard-earned money to support other peoples children. Bottom line is YOUR kids are YOUR responsibility. It's not my job to pay for them. If you can't afford them, don't have them.
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sue2008
Feb. 7, 2007, 4:15 p.m.For sure the gov't is enabling them. I think all welfare recipients should do some community work then they would think a million time b4 submitting their application and they would be creative trust me.
at least, they can clean the snow for us. we pay them salary. we work hard for our money so should them!!!
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sue2008
Feb. 7, 2007, 4:15 p.m.I've got a story to share. One day I was working at pharmacy-in dispensary area- a woman is on welfare she wants 6 month supply of her medication because she is going on vacation. I told her no you can only have enough for one month. She started screaming and cursing us and many stories like that. I am working 40 hours a week to send her on vacation. I can't afford 6 month-vacations myself. There is something wrong with the system.
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JenMurdock
Feb. 7, 2007, 4:21 p.m.I find it interesting how C-sections seem to be going WAAAY up, and yet the death rate isn't going down. And, which countries are having lower rates of death than ours? Why don't they mention that? Maybe because they don't make women feel like they can't have the kid themselves or with only a midwife present, and avoid exposure to all these super bugs, staph, flesh eating bacteria etc at the hospitals. Hospitals make a LOT of money from births. Why go to a dirty hospital to give birth if you have a 'low risk' pregnancy anyway...seems counterintuitive. How about that woman who lost her arms/legs to a virulent hospital infection (that was carried there by some medical personnel that carried it around the hospital).
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NeoCon
Feb. 7, 2007, 4:33 p.m.I don't know where u guys get your facts. 80% of all juvenile offenses are committed by kids from single parent homes. This is not something that we should be proud of as a nation or something that we should support. We need to end all subsides to unwed mothers. Once it because unacceptable again this rate will drop.
Also the infant mortality rate in the US is based mostly on the infant mortality of illegal aliens. That is why it is so high for our country not because there is anything wrong with our health care system. That is what the socialist left want you to believe they just dont tell you the whole truth.
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uuranium
Feb. 7, 2007, 4:35 p.m.sure do hope that jeffery1 has done his/her part to save this world from overpopulation by getting permanently neutered!
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nostalgia
Feb. 7, 2007, 6:05 p.m.I found it interesting that some of the statistics from the annual CDC report were NOT in the article.
Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country-over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Wonder why the article omitted that? Seems like a very important piece of information to me
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jordan11
Feb. 7, 2007, 6:44 p.m.Perhaps you are arrogant for thinking you are in a position of authority where you believe you can pass judgement on someone else's opinion in such a harsh way.>>>>
Nope, just calling a spade a spade.
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WesternCiv
Feb. 7, 2007, 9:24 p.m.Procreation is the recreation of stupid people.
The secular progressives in our country our fine with this and think that so long as they charge the more responsible people in America through taxes to support the idiots who can't stop having kids the problem will eventually go away. It's not going to people, these unwed birth #s are just going to go up. There was a funny post on here about Mike Judge's movie "Idiocracy" which dealt with the funny (but also possible)future of this problem.
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OldSOB
Feb. 8, 2007, 12:41 a.m.Out-of-wedlock births have been increasing at an alarming rate for sixty years. Seems the pregnant couples have all kinds of excuses for not marrying before the birth of their precious child. They are holding up as an example, the celebrities who can care less about the bastard child's legacy. Somehow these selfish people are forgetting that the illegitimate child they are bringing into this world is going to grow to be an adult. And this adult is not going to stop by asking simply "Whose my daddy?" They are going after their birth rights and punishing their selfish parents.
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evelyna
Feb. 8, 2007, 12:50 a.m.C sections have always been on the uprise. I can remember when women were in labor for days and the hospital would not give a c section.
Now they will give them in an instant because they will not risk a lawsuit if the baby dies(an act of nature).
I had a friend who owned a petshop and people would want a replacement snake or lizard(usually people who did not educate themselves to the care required by the animal.) He would not give them a replacement if over a year. People expected a life time gaurantee.
People who take a pot shot in the dark should not expect the perfect child or expect the Dr. to be God.
People do things on impulse and expect to go back because it is too difficult or such.
I think more people would adopt but too much red tape.
Cheaper and easier to spit it out. If you cannot afford to pay-the taxpayer is there for you.
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hoylelisa
Feb. 8, 2007, 8:31 a.m.Guy's I'm just really happy to read the part about teen birth rates are the lowest in 65 year's. FINALLY!! Maybe in another few year's school's and parent's can convince these kid's that having children that early end's or severly crimp's your ability to suceed in the workplace. You can't get pregnant, quit school, accept government assistance and have a happy and fruitful life--it's unrealistic, not to mention kid's that are not even raised themselves can't in turn raise someone else. Grow up, mature, try life out before you decide you should be a mom girl's--it's not for everyone-some people are simply not cut out to parent.
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