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Originally Posted by manaboutown
The mothers of some of my close friends also worked. Some mothers had to as they had lost their husbands in the war. Some classmates had mothers who were physicians, nurses, teachers, worked at or managed retail stores and restaurants, you name it. My mother was a teacher but my parents elected to live on less income so she could stay home and take care of my brother and me. We squeaked by. My father worked long hours on commission in retail yet earned little. Several of the children in my class were fatherless, not because they were illegitimate but because their fathers had been killed in combat.
From what I have read illegitimacy has a lot to do with childhood poverty, regardless of race or ethnicity. Children in groups having the highest illegitimacy rates suffer the highest poverty rates. The percentage of children raised in traditional two parent nuclear family units since the 1950s has diminished over the years. IMHO this has created many of the problems we now experience such as higher and higher rates of crime, poor schools and substance abuse.
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That's true about "illegitimacy", but the use of the word says a lot about the user. No human being should ever be weighed down with such an idea or concept. The real TRUTH is that individual women (always they blame the women for the man's mess up).........individual women are NOT to be blamed . Look further back to see that the real problem is a societal problem - basically a disappearing MIDDLE CLASS since about 1975. And funny thing, society was controlled mainly by old white men then (and now). Put that into your cranial calculations and smoke it!