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This is not the case with unmarried couples--which fact gives married partners the edge over their unwed counterparts.
But I argue from the beginning that black affection for Clinton stems from: 1) a widespread sense among blacks that the economy is doing better by them than ever before; 2) a deliberate Clinton program to court black churchgoers who make up the heart of the black middle class; and 3) Clinton's intuitive understanding that the black middle class is basically conservative on the issues of crime, unwed motherhood, and welfare.
There remain, of course, a few social problems that really have gotten worse in the last few years, and Bennett, of course, eagerly cites them: a rising percentage of births to unwed mothers, rising marijuana consumption by high-school seniors, a growing and possibly indiscriminate tendency for doctors to prescribe Ritalin to children suspected of suffering from attention deficit disorder.
Wolfe's suburbanites have sympathy for unwed ghetto mothers, believe in giving people a second chance, and know that the safety net is a moral, not just a practical, necessity.
But many others, especially unwed mothers who had their first baby as teens and either dropped out of high school or have little work experience, find it much more difficult to work their way off welfare.