Black Women: 59 Percent Have Multiple Babies’ Daddies, Study Shows
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A new study shows that the rate of American women who have children with multiple fathers, also called “multiple-father family structure,” is spreading widely throughout the African American community.
Check this: 1 in 5 American moms have kids with different biological fathers, according to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Black mothers make up 59% of children with more then one father. Hispanic mothers are 2nd with 35% and White mothers come in last with 22%.
According to the study’s author Cassandra Dorius, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, “[Mothers with multiple fathers for their children] are more likely to be underemployed, to have lower incomes and to be less educated.”
According to the study, families with multiple fathers are stressed out, with issues often arising about how to consistently raise a child in different households.
As if black women needed more wretched news to strengthen the stereotype of them as oversexed animals with low character and self-esteem.
In a study that could be classified as “How does this help America,” University of Michigan demographer Cassandra Dorius, the study’s author, states that 28 percent of American women with two or more children have them with more than one father. Tragically, the percentage for black women is more than twice the national average.
The study concludes that more than 59 percent of black women who have more than one child also have multiple babies’ daddies. Hispanics are a distant second at 35 percent, with white women holding steady at 22 percent.
Some believe the survey could become another way to conveniently categorize sisters as amoral baby-making machines.
“There has been a lot of ink spilled on the love lives of black women, a lot of over-sensationalizing,” said Avis Jones-DeWeever, executive director of the National Council of ? Women. “What I am concerned about is how it’s going to be sensationalized in the media. I am concerned that this will be another way that this country will put a negative label on black women which, in this country, we have a long history of doing.”
Tami Winfrey Harris is an editorial member of Love Isn’t Enough, a blog that focuses on reproduction and race. She said the University of Michigan study merely reflects a paradigm shift in the country’s view of normal parenting.
“If I was a betting woman, I would guess that many people will point to this fact as an example of the decline in American morality and the cause of a great number of societal ills,” said Winfrey Harris, who is based in Indianapolis. “And because our society likes to police the sexuality of women — especially women of color — these troubles will be laid at our feet.”
Dorius says that the data is reflective of a trend that transcends the myth that this is consigned only to women of low means and limited education.
“We tend to think of women with multiple partner fertility as being only poor single women with little education and money, but in fact at some point, most were married, and working, and going to school, and doing all the things you’re supposed to do to live the American dream,” she said in a university news release. –terry shropshire
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despicable
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black women you gotta do better
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pass
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I would like to know the sampling methods they used for this study, although I'm sure their figures aren't far off from reality.
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in other words, 59% of black kids don't have a father
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Me and my brother got two different fathers...
I don't know how true this study is, but I know one thing. Most ? I grew up with either don't know their father, or has a father that played a minimal (or ? ) part in their upbringing. -
if you and your step brothers and sister all lived under the same roof with your mother then she is a statistic
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it's sad in so many ways man.everybody i know dont have a daddy in their lives.some are making multiple kids like their father and leaving the baby mama to raise the kids by herself or he just aint worth a damn.
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Man all these "studies" are ? imo
They are always doin "studies" on us black folks -
I guess they forgot about asians in their study. :-??
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I can believe this
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More than 19 million children -- about one in four -- were living in households where no father, biological or other, was present, according to a Census Bureau report in 2005.
The statistics also show that this burden falls more heavily on black children. Some 56 percent of black children lived in single-parent families in 2004, with most of those families headed by mothers. That figure compared with 22 percent of white children and 31 percent of Hispanic children.
seems to mirror thisThe study concludes that more than 59 percent of black women who have more than one child also have multiple babies’ daddies. Hispanics are a distant second at 35 percent, with white women holding steady at 22 percent.
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dallas' 4 eva wrote: »I guess they forgot about asians in their study. :-??
the asians probably did these calcualations -
If you subsidize anything you get a surplus of it.
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asians dont play that ? overseas,even though theres a billion of them there
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Man all these "studies" are ? imo
They are always doin "studies" on us black folks
They are always doing studies on everybody... -
***Me & my brother have the same father post***
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59% is not that bad ,I thought it would be higher
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***Me & my brother have the same father post***
guess you are in the minority for minorities. -
<<<<Aint got no kids, mother only had one baby-daddy (her husband).
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it's sad that all the kids have different last names smh