JK wrote: “In spite of the demonstrable importance of the latter statistic, the reporter didn’t mention it until almost the end of the piece.”

Of course, the reporter didn’t use the dreaded “L” word. The notion that there is a naturally “legal” (the root of the word “legitimate” being the Latin “lex,” for law) and moral condition under which children should be conceived, born, and raised is so odious to today’s social revolutionaries as to make their heads spin round backwards and vomit pea soup.

“The notion that there is a naturally ‘legal’ … and moral condition under which children should be conceived, born, and raised is so odious to today’s social revolutionaries as to make their heads spin round backwards and vomit pea soup.” — Bubba

You got that right, Bubba, friend. You got that exactly right. Well said.

Truer words were never written.

I liked the last part of the paragraph on illegitimacy, the stat reflects “…the growing number of unmarried women in the population.” Is that all it reflects?

Something else that goes unmentioned is that immigrants and their children are going to be the main source of population growth over the next 50 years.

does anyone have the percentages on immigrants and recently natrualized citizens who are having babies out of wedlock versus those who have been in the u.s. longer. or what the ratio is for generations someone’s family has been citizens and the out of wedlock births and how this all breaks down by ethnic origin or country of origin.

i have a suspicion that immigrants and those recently natualized are less likely to have babies out of wedlock and that americans of more than two generations in the u.s. are also more likely to have births out of wedlock.

i would be especially interested in african immigrants from nigeria, ethiopia and gahna

I don’t have the exact statistics abby asked for, but most immigrants are Hispanics and most Hispanics are have been here less than two generations it’s probably relevant that in 1995 the illegitimacy rate among Hispanics was twice that among whites (see http://www.welfareacademy.org/conf/papers/rector_t.htm ).

thank you jim kalb.

do you know how these figure play out for hispanics versus whites when birth control and abortion are added in? even though the majority of hispanic immigrants to the u.s. are indian peasants from mexico, i would have expected less out of wedlock births because of planned parenthood targeting them and because of their catholic culture. do you have statistics in mexico to compare against the u.s..

what i’m getting at is, is moving to the u.s. a corrupting influence, both because of welfare and the culture in general? i would think, the longer in the system, the more corrupt any ethnic group would become. out of wedlock births would seem to be a luxury, and more of a scandal in poorer countries, especially catholic ones.

Don’t have the statistics abby asks for at hand. Why not go look? You can find anything on the Internet, and the questions are good ones.

Back in the days, President Teddy Roosevelt said it was the duty of every able-bodied woman to bear at least four children.

Can you believe that? Now I think we should demand three. Those rejectionists of the biological imperative, where the cerebral cortex overrides the interest of the individual, the family, the community, the—skip over this part, please—the race, and by natural extension the country, should be viewed as being selfish.

Raising a family’s tough. I’ve got three so far. Three-week-old Katie’s on my arm, making blogging akin to a gymnastic activity.

Why not think eugenically at the national level? Have a fiscal policy put in place, similar to intrusive but level-headed Singapore, which taxes college-educated women who have less than two kids or are barren (a musty word) by choice.

With the focus on sex being not just a pleasure but an important duty, premarital sex, which is allowing certain diseases to spread like a viral Borg Collective, may also be viewed as a more dubious activity with its obvious promotion of sterility.

Didn’t Patrick Buchanan write convincingly about this? Were his data on below-replacement birth rates in dying Europe challenged by anyone? I don’t think even Michael Kinsley got huffy.

So this challenge facing whites is, well, breed or say goodbye to civilization. There’s a lot of fecund Muslims out there looking to transplant a tough taskmaster, Sharia law.