Illegitimacy statistics

John Moe Today is the 2nd Anniversary of the Saffron Revolution . John Moe, a Burmese pro-democracy activist who was expelled from Singapore, reflects on the Saffron Revolution. “Free from torture of a person by another person, with our metta the world will be peaceful” – a slogan chanted by Buddhist monks and civilian protesters on the streets of Yangon in September 22nd 2007. There was a remarkable occurrence in Yangon, former city-state of Burma. No one could have anti

In traditional Western cultures, below the rank of aristocrats, romantic and sexual impulsiveness was a major threat to social standing. The punishment in terms of class standing for out-of-wedlock births was so harsh that the illegitimacy rate among women in England in 1200-1800 was stable at around 3-4%, even though women didn’t marry on average until age 24 to 26.The sexual revolution of the 1960s, which hit home in the 1970s, disrupted this traditional system of social sanctions. You can seeIn the years since 1980, however, these trends have not continued on straight upward paths, and the story of divorce has grown increasingly complicated. In the case of divorce, as in so many others, the worst consequences of the social revolution of the 1960s and ’70s are now felt disproportionately by the poor and less educated, while the wealthy elites who set off these transformations in the first place have managed to reclaim somewhat healthier and more stable habits of married life. This im

India live cricket match scores, commentary, statistics, match analysis with 24X7 online coverage of cricket. Latest cricket news, fixtures, results, videos, interviews and updatesIn traditional Western cultures, below the rank of aristocrats, romantic and sexual impulsiveness was a major threat to social standing. The punishment in terms of class standing for out-of-wedlock births was so harsh that the illegitimacy rate among women in England in 1200-1800 was stable at around 3-4% , even though women didn't marry on average until age 24 to 26. The sexual revolution of the 1960s, which hit home in the 1970s, disrupted this traditional system of social sanctions. You canConservative actress and former Saturday Night Live star Victoria Jackson has an interesting take at Big Hollywood on liberalism and where they love of big government comes from: I saw a real fat girl once, slowly walking down the middle of an empty street in a “poor” neighborhood. She was eating from a bag of Cheetos. I was in my car at a stop light, watching her. I thought maybe no one told her that Cheetos make you fat, or maybe her life is so sad that that bag of Cheetos is the highlig

Do warm climates shrink your brain? The latest scientific findings on the evolution of the brain below. In my usual totally "incorrect" way, I am going to point out that modern-day data confirm the hypothesis too. Africa is a generally warm place and African heads tend to be noticeably smaller. Some of the East Africans that I see around Brisbane could almost be classified as microcephalic. And, as the article below implies and as modern research confirms, there is a conneAs we were walking the dog through a part of town not too far from our house the other day, I was struck by the number of run-down dwellings I saw. Our own neighborhood is in pretty good shape, but you don't have to walk far to get to some residences in serious want of home improvement. Paint worn off, sagging roofs, rotting wood; people sitting on their front porches quite likely because, we surmised, the living conditions outside were preferable to those within. I don't know the people wh

Kamloops Real Estate Blog provides MLS listings, information, statistics, homes for sale and home values for the real estate market in Kamloops, BC.How often had you heard that “every other developed country has single-payer health insurance”? So often that I have lost count. How often have you heard that those single-payer health systems provide superior health care at lower costs? Again, so often that I have lost count.Yet when you actually start to dig around, you discoverJoshua Foust is an American military analyst. He blogs about Central Asia and Afghanistan at  Registan.net . Reuters is not responsible for the content - the views are the author’s alone. It would be an understatement to call opium cultivation in Afghanistan America’s headache. The issue of illegal drug cultivation and smuggling has vexed policymakers for three decades, and led to a multi-billion dollar campaign to combat the phenomenon. Opium causes all of our problems, so they say—acc

Nima Shirazi Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought. - Jules Henri Poincaré, La Science et l'Hypothèse By now, we all know the story: Still high from Barack Obama's Cairo speech and Lebanon's recent elections that saw the pro-Western March 14 faction barely maintain itJuly 13, 2009 Posted by Jay Livingston There it was again, the phrase that makes me cringe. This time it was in a letter to the New York Times Magazine in response to a column by Rob Walker on a marketing strategy the Hyatt Hotel chain was using to increase customer loyalty. The hotel would give“random acts of generosity” in hopes of generating gratitude. Walker also cited some supporting research from a management journal. That was his mistake. WellBy Nima Shirazi Foreign Policy Journal - June 25, 2009 Voters in Iran cast their ballots for the 2009 presidential election Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l’une et l’autre nous dispensent de réfléchir. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought. - Jules Henri Poincaré, La Science et l’Hypothèse B y now, we all know the story: Sti

Richard Nadler cites my observation that "10% of the prison population consists of illegals," then adds: "But if federal incarceration statistics are any guide, more than half of Hispanic incarcerations are for immigration violations, not for drug offenses, larcenies, or crimes of violence. If so, illegals, at 8% of California's population, are rather less crime prone than natives." Federal incarceration statistics are in fact no guide at all to the California prison population. SDouter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought. - Jules Henri Poincaré, La Science et l'Hypothèse By now, we all know the story: Still high from Barack Obama's Cairo speech and Lebanon's recent elections that saw the pro-Western March 14 faction barely maintain its majority inDespite the rhetoric surrounding the recent Iranian election, Nima Shirazi maintains that there is remarkably little solid evidence that anything really is awry. Very troubling is the continuing suppression of the media in Iran, but that is not particularly surprising given the history of the theocratic regime. Perhaps it is time for a little simple quiet and patience about events in a country that is not ours to meddle with.Richard Jehn / The Rag BlogIn Fraud, We Trust?By NimaIn response to my post where I acknowledged that Mexicans are on average hardworking, Diamed wrote: This is nonsense. Mexicans don’t work harder than whites. Mexican unemployment rates are higher than the white rate. Mexican welfare rates are higher than the white rate. You should read the amren article: Hispanics, A Statistical Portrait, and get your facts straight. http://amren.com/features/hispanics/index.html “Fifty percent of Hispanic households use some form of welfare, the high

  As we all mostly know, illegitimacy is going way up - way, way up.  A combination of feminism and culture that has said "it's all about me" and "stupid husbands"?  Or can we also add in a lack of morals and ignorance of the outcome? From Joanne Jacobs : Marriage ‘isn’t a priority’ for parents Unwed motherhood is way up, primarily because women in their 20s and 30s don’t see marriage as essential or because single women nearing 40 prefer a sperm donor to a marriage of convenience. Nea

Buried in the ‘Health’ section of the New York Times: Out-of-Wedlock Birthrates Are Soaring, U.S. Reports By GARDINER HARRIS May 13, 2009WASHINGTON — Unmarried mothers gave birth to 4 out of every 10 babies born in the United States in 2007, a share that is increasing rapidly both here and abroad, according to government figures released Wednesday. Before 1970, most unmarried mothers were teenagers. But in recent years the birthrate among unmarried women in their 20s and 30s has soared — rising

Lawrence Auster was gracious enough to post one comment I sent to him. He never fixed his comment system after Movable Type broke and so the only way to comment is to email him. To see my responses after the first, you’ll just have to read this blog. After Auster said that “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: modern liberal society is a factory for producing young white female murder victims.” I responded: The stats do noHeather Mac Donald, often held up as an intellectual force on the right , is still Very Very Concerned About Those Black People She Knows So Well. After spouting a bunch of statistics about the Negros and their love for killin', she then gets to her point : If the black illegitimacy rate were not nearly three times the rate of whites’, I would have few qualms about gay marriage. Yes, she actu