Harry Guerrilla
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US births break record; 40 pct out-of-wedlock
While I don't necessarily disagree with single women having children, I do have a problem with these women giving birth on the tax payers dime.
If statistics from 2002 still apply today and you account for additional births added about half of these women are using medicaid to give birth to children.
That is absolute bull**** in my opinion.
ATLANTA – Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World War II. More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history — and a wedding band made increasingly little difference in the matter. The 4,317,119 births, reported by federal researchers Wednesday, topped a record first set in 1957 at the height of the baby boom.
The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend that started years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older.
Today, U.S. women are averaging 2.1 children each. That's the highest level since the early 1970s, but is a relatively small increase from the rate it had hovered at for more than 10 years and is hardly transforming.
"It's the tiniest of baby booms," said Morgan in agreement. "This is not an earthquake; it's a slight tremor."
While I don't necessarily disagree with single women having children, I do have a problem with these women giving birth on the tax payers dime.
If statistics from 2002 still apply today and you account for additional births added about half of these women are using medicaid to give birth to children.
That is absolute bull**** in my opinion.