Copy -- How many "Republican conservative" teenagers do you know? Most young people are liberals -- even children of Republican conservatives.

Manicotti -- you say "there are an equal number of single Dads out there..." Sorry pal. One male can impregnate a whole slew of females.

You guys should really spend more time thinking about these things before you write.

Of course a woman can have artifical insimination - or get pregnant the via sex. Of course she is capable of having the baby and raising this child to adulthood to be productive and responsible. Is this ideal? Did you have a father in your household? Was he that expendable that you think your kids just don't need a father in their lives? Hollywood has brainwashed so many... Thanks Goldie Hawn.

My father was and still is very important and essential to me. I am 45 years old. My husband and I have one child who is now 20. Would I ever have considered depriving my son of his father "by choice"?

How inconceivably selfish that is of anyone to CHOOSE to deprive their own child of a father... why??? Because you just want a child!???!!!

How selfish and totally conceited that is. People who feel like they just have to have a child, because the clock is ticking and your time is almost up - you should have thought of that earlier! Maybe this would be the ideal situation for someone to adopt a child who really needs a home??? But just because you think YOU are so superior that you are a woman that doesn't need a man... YOU ARE AN IDIOT. The man is not for you in this case. The man is the father that your child NEEDS. You should be sterilized. Not because you're getting government assistance to raise your child. You could have tons of money and don't receive any government help. You still cannot be a father to your child. Children need a mother and a father. Choosing to deprive your child of either parent is child abuse.

The perfect movie to explain what will eventually happen to this country is "Idiocracy" with Luke Wilson. It show what will continue to happen to this country as the idiots are left to multiply.

Why aren't they being held accountable? There are exceptions to every rule, however, most fathers are absent because they choose to be.

Wanna bet the rise is due to illegal aleins, daughters of illegal aleins, refugees and legal immigrates. they 've figured out how to live off their children instead of work. Remember th muslum guy in Miami, he had 100 conquebines, whom each had 5 children. They all collected welfare, the man kept them all together in one building, and he sent the rest of the money to radical islamic terrorists. He's in jail now but we are all still stuck with the bill, same for our south of the border illegals, and all the other refugees from muslum nations. Breed like roaches, take over our America.
Jamsey Comes Looking, Ameican Indian woman.

I will point out a charming dichotomy: “motherhood” has been sanctified to the point where fathers have been relegated to sperm-donors & part-time caretakers at best and ambulatory wallets at worst. Ironically, modern society blithely also allows the same individuals to unilaterally exercise their "reproductive rights" 1.4M times (30% of all children conceived) annually (w/o considering the corresponding responsibilities) by aborting, committing infanticide, & outright abandoning their children for purely capricious & arbitrary reasons. This is perfectly “normal” behavior for the virtuous gender. If society actually cared about the welfare of children, it might start by removing the “implied” legal standard that children are the sole “property” of their biological mothers from conception to legal adulthood.

Additionally, American women bring about 70% of divorce actions (the “No-Fault” Divorce legal movement was started by the National Association of Women Lawyers in 1960), have children out of wedlock at least 37% of the time, and are invariably “entitled” to earned-income tax credits, subsidized housing, welfare, food stamps, child custody, child support, alimony, etc.- very few single mothers are economically independent. Women are the biggest sexual/financial exploiters of multiple partners. Their near monopoly with respect to child custody results in women are twice as likely to commit child abuse & neglect. Then there’s the matter of abuse committed by non-biological parents/partners. It would seem, in the absence of evidence of abuse, that default shared custody would be in the best interest of the nation’s children. Unfortunately, in this current state of institutionalized misandry, when all things female are sacrosanct and beyond reproach, maintaining the consequence-free, responsibility-optional lifestyles of irresponsible women children trumps the interests of this nation’s children. They are their mother’s “property” after all. Isn’t gender-feminism wonderful?

Since you went way out of your way to dig up those stats, can you also give us the racial demographics of those statistics, please?

OOOOOOPS.....I guess I just peed in your Cheerios, didn't I?

Cause we ALL know who blacks and hispanics vote for....thanks for the laugh, copy.

Since the article didn't address the form of support for the single mothers, I'm going to have to say we're still guessing a jumping a bit off the rails in terms of assigning every woman who is single but gives birth to a lower and decidely sleezy class of people.

What I did note was the the number of births to teens dropped from 50% to 23% of the total while those for older women jumped.

Without having a back story, it is far less likely that a woman who has waited that long to give birth is a welfare hag. More likely she is a professional or at least career oriented person who realizes she is running out of time.

Wouldn't you say?

BTW, I deplore welfare hags.

Actual these children are being brought into this world under the careful watch of theier federal god father. he will provide for them all of thier worldly needs as long as they stay true to him. This is a system set up in the 60's to bait unwed mothers into having these drones. After birth they naturally feel loyalty to the father figure which has been providing housing, food, and shelter. He never has to leave for work and can get your family additional money thru force which no other father on this planet can do without penalty.

Where if your correlative question, "and what party are you registered with?" or "who did you vote for in the last election?" If you are going to survey the number of pregnant women, you should also find out their political affiliation. You are arguing that someone having a baby in a state that voted for a Republican is also Republican. That is junk statistics if I ever saw it!

BTW, what do you "Republican strongholds like Massachusetts"? The same state with a Democrat governor along with John Kerry and Ted Kennedy in the Senate? Some stronghold!

... but the facts don't make for good talk-radio outrage, now do they?

http://womensissues.about.com/od/datingandsex/a/TeenPregStates.htm

States ranked by rates of pregnancy among women age 15-19 (pregnancies per thousand):

Nevada (113)
Arizona (104)
Mississippi (103)
New Mexico (103)
Texas (101)
Florida (97)
California (96)
Georgia (95)
North Carolina (95)
Arkansas (93)

States ranked by rates of live births among women age 15-19 (births per thousand):


Mississippi (71)
Texas (69)
Arizona (67)
Arkansas (66)
New Mexico (66)
Georgia (63)
Louisiana (62)
Nevada (61)
Alabama (61)

"The highest teen birth rates are in the South and Southwest; Mississippi is highest with 68.4 per 1,000, followed by New Mexico, with a rate of 64.1 and Texas, with 63.1. The lowest rates are in the Northeast. New Hampshire had the fewest teen births with 18.7 per 1,000. Vermont, with 20.8 per 1,000, and Massachusetts, with 21.3 per 1,000, were also low. Decreases were noted in New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-07-teenbirths_N.htm

Darn those Mississippi Democrats! It's a good thing family values prevail in Republican strongholds like Vermont and Massachusetts....

The spike in single mother births is largely due to anchor babies. America is not "reproducing itself", America is welcoming in an unprecendented horde of Democrat voters and welfare recipients. Why do you think San Fran Nan is so terribly concerned with allowing the floodgates to stay open? We are leaving our country's future in the hands of the most uneducated and ignorant of society. I have no doubt that all of the illegals will be allowed to swarm the polls in 2010 and 2012 to keep the welfare gravy train rolling. No need to get an education or strive for any measure of success, your earnings will only be confiscated in order to perpetuate this cycle of ignorance and irresponsibility.

Copyleft, you said, "Most of those teenage unwed mothers are Republican conservatives in solid-red states."

Where did you get this information?

"The good news is that this will make for more taxpayers" WHAT?!?

I believe that it's more likely the majority of these babies will grow up to be next generation welfare recipients or prisoners, probably splitting their time between those two occupations. I challenge you to tell me how a welfare recipient or a prisoner can possibly contribute to shouldering the tax burden when in fact tax dollars are going to be spent on subsidizing or housing them. Not to mention that the vast majority of these people are going to be govt educated...that is assuming they even complete high school.

You are the exception, not the rule. Like it or not, most single mothers are not capable of taking care of their children without outside help.

There was a Mike Judge movie released a few years back called Idiocracy that showed a good example of Odom's perspective. It's one of those movies you watch when you don't want to think.... and then you realize that it's scary how close we are getting to that kind of society.

Unless these women are being artificially inseminated with sperm from anonymous donors and/or going somewhere for fertility treatment like the Octo-Mom, there are an equal number of single Dads out there who are allowing their children to be supported by the government. In past generations there was a stigma attached to having children born out of wedlock and the old shotgun wedding was used to correct the situation. It may not have been a perfect solution but it drove home the point that there are consequences to one's actions Now, without that stigma or the notion that there are consequences to one's actions, we have a country full of hit and run fathers. It takes a woman 9 months to gestate a baby but one hit and run father can impregnate several women in that same 9 month period. I work as a child advocate in the juvenile court in my community and believe me, it happens. There are many stupid women out there who make the dumbest choices imaginable when it comes to picking a father for their potential children. When a guy has several children with several different women and is not supporting any of them, has a long history of legal troubles & violence, and a known history of substance abuse, it should come as no surprise when things don't go well with this guy. Women have got to start taking more responsibility for their reproductive choices instead of playing victim all the time. I have worked cases where I have finally been able to track down the father to let him know that his child has been taken into the state's custody because of abuse and/or neglect and all he was willing to do was show up in court to sign away his rights because he wants nothing to do with the child or the mother, and mostly wants to make sure that no one ever comes after him for child support. In the whole issue of single mothers there is plenty of blame to go around but children are the big losers.

That link tries to connect to a Google Mail inbox. Can you fix?

As for single mothers who actually chose to have children outside wedlock, I'd really like that link to work so I can check the age breakdown.

As a professional woman over 40, I've noticed more females in my type of field having children (finally) between their Mid-30s and early 40s before it is too late. Many of them remain unmarried.

I do wonder how much of this increase is because my generation of women were encouraged to be cutthroat and compete whole-heartedly in the professional world and put off having families in order to not put that success in jeopardy.

I realize many don't believe it still happens, but it sure does. A big belly and maternity leave is a death sentence in terms of competition for loads of us. It's just unspoken now and covered up by legal requirements and PC niceties.

Personally, I'm adopting. Can't take the risk.

So, like I said, I wonder how much of that is an older group of women who have run out of time to wait for prince charming.

The only time that the words "magnificent research" and "Ann Coulter" should show up in the same sentence would be when "Magnificent research by a team of renowned experts have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ann Coulter is, indeed, a man." See? And if Neal starts blathering about how much he loves Riverdance and "Phantom of the Opera" while talking about how hot Coulter is, then all of you will learn a little something about the Talkmaster as well,,,,,

How many are illegal aliiens?

My sis-in-law has 5 different kids from 5 different daddies...along with a meth problem. She has custody of ONE of her children, 1 in State care, 1 with her grandparents, 1 was put up for adoption and 1 is with my family.

She also has had at LEAST one taxpayer-funded abortion that I am aware of.


(She's never been married, BTW)

While you blame the woman for making a "conscious decision to have a child without getting married," let's not leave out all the deadbeat dads who pack up and leave. I'd be willing to bet they outnumber single mothers who are that way by choice.