>maybe not during slavery, but once
>slavery was out black people
>were marrying, and were joining
>together in families. There
>have been plenty of stories
>where slaves from different plantations
>found each other after emancipation
>and then moved together for
>another life. A prime
>example of this was Booker
>Washington, who's real mother got
>together with a man from
>a nearby plantation and moved
>to West Virginia.

A couple of examples don't make the rule.......

>Maybe broken families are a fixture
>in your family, but I
>know they aren't for mine
>and for folks I knew
>growing up and even today,
>and distant census reports would
>say the same as well.

Like I said, the Census reports could be/are likely skewed.

Not all Blacks live in the South and even if they did, it doesn't mean Single parent homes wouldn't occur. Like I said, talk to people who were born into Single parent homes in the last 30 years and ask them if their parents were born into the same situation.....a lot of people are continuing/breaking the single parent cycle, not starting it.

It's nice that around you most people had two parents, but that's not the case for lot of other communities...like I said, the patterns started long ago, they aren't new. Just talk to people who were born into single parent homes in the last 30-40 years.

Not to insult your faith, but I don't think the presence of a church in someone's life community will automatically decrease the number of teenage/single parent pregnancies, teenage pregnancy rates are typically higher in Bible Belt states.

http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_preg_stats.html

Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi & Tennesee ALL have higher pregnancy rates then New York, Connecticut, Massachusets, Pennsylvania, & Maryland.....almost double in most cases.

There is a reason for the difference and it isn't rates of teen sex.




Peace,





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