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These trends are already starting to appear--the percent of black births that are out of wedlock has finally stopped growing, and the black teen birthrate has dropped 26 percent since 1991, to its lowest level since record-keeping began.
The women DeParle dwells on are poster children for irresponsibility as a lifestyle: At every turn there are unexpected pregnancies, out of wedlock fatherless children, and abusive-cum-substance-abusive-cum-mooching boyfriends.
Let us limit our thinking, for the time being, to the most modest claim—that all individuals, black and white, men and women, gay and straight, born in wedlock and out of wedlock, should be treated equally under the law.
One misstep in the Post's sum-up of Quayle's career: It cites his Murphy Brown speech about out of wedlock births as an embarrassing incident on a par with the potato spelling episode.
Most children born out of wedlock are reported by their mothers to have been "wanted," but "not at that time."