Irresponsible Reproduction on the Rise Again

I just post this stuff to get it out of my craw and off my saved Favorites. I don't expect that people will let such news affect their public affairs passivity. First, from Reuters, "Teen births tilt up, unmarried rate hits record":

The birth rate for teenagers increased in 2006 in the United States for the first time since 1991, while childbearing among unmarried women surged to the highest level on record, health officials said on Wednesday.
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The birth rate for females aged 15 to 19 rose by 3 percent in 2006 from the previous year, to 41.9 live births per 1,000 from 40.5 in 2005. This ends 14 years of declines during which the teen birth rate dropped by 34 percent from a peak of 61.8 births per 1,000 in 1991.

The increases were largest among black teens, whose birth rate climbed 5 percent in 2006 from the prior year. The rate was up 3 percent for white and 2 percent for Hispanic teens.

Now, these are not births to barely nubile females who have been married off to men acceptable to the families involved.

Births to unmarried girls and women reached their highest levels in 2006 since the government began tracking such statistics in 1940, Ventura said.

Unmarried girls and women accounted for 38.5 percent of all U.S. births last year, up from 36.9 percent in 2005. Among blacks, they accounted for 70.7 percent of births. Among Hispanics, it was 49.9 percent and among whites 26.6 percent.

The out-of-wedlock birth rate rose by a sharp 7 percent last year. Ventura said from about 1995 to 2002, statistics on births by unmarried women had remained pretty stable, but since then have been on the way up. About 40 percent of unmarried women giving birth are in cohabiting relationships, she added.

The females doing this, hey, you're not some rich Hollywood actress who can pay all the expenses for the baby, a nanny, etc., even if that would make it all right. You're going to end up hitting the welfare system and the natural father for child support sooner or later, and burden your own mother with helping out with the baby so you can be freer to work or party. You and the child are going to pay dearly for your arrogance, that you can raise a child "on your own." Sheesh, 60% of the dummies dropping babies outside marriage don't even have the father living with them. This shit needs to stop, but it won't. It will just get worse. Female "empowerment," eh?

[End of rant]

[Wintermute goes back to watching samurai movies and shopping for hot outfits and shoes for his GF for Valentine's Day.]