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But as David Ellwood and Lawrence Summers have shown, cash welfare benefits rose sharply in the 1960s and fell in the 1970s and 1980s, when out-of-wedlock births rose most.
But, as the tabloids demonstrate week after week, stars can be counted on to get in violent disputes, have out-of-wedlock children, and act bizarrely.
Thus the 1994 chapter on "Youth: Pathologies and Behavior" led off with two big charts on teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rates since 1960, which were shown to be rising impressively.
But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.
Black employment, home ownership, academic achievement, and college enrollment are up; out-of-wedlock births, violent crime, poverty, and welfare enrollment are down.