What Percentage of BLM Protestors Know What They're Protesting?

[Mike M (the other one)]

(08-17-2016, 04:53 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Your source?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/surge-in-welfare-stems-from-rise-in-out-of-wedlock-births/article/2552779

The curve that tracks the increasing percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers starts to bend upward in the mid-1960s. By 1965, it was 7.7 percent. By 1969, it was 10 percent. By 1975, it was 14.3 percent.

It broke 20 percent in 1983; 30 percent in 1992; and 40 percent in 2008. That year it was 40.6 percent. In 2009, it was 41.0 percent. In 2010, it was 40.8 percent. In 2011 and again in 2012, it was 40.7 percent. And in 2013, it was 40.6 percent.

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Please note that after Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 the numbers begin to rapidly rise.

This is by far the best source I have seen so far:

https://singlemotherguide.com/single-mother-statistics/

Today 1 in 4 children under the age of 18 — a total of about 17.4 million — are being raised without a father and nearly half (45%) live below the poverty line.

For those living with father only, about 21% live in poverty. In contrast, among children living with both parents, only 13% are counted as poor.

Out of more than 10 million low-income working families with children, 39% were headed by single working mothers or about 4.1 million. The proportion is much higher among African Americans (65%), compared with whites (36%).

Only one third of single mothers received any child support, and the average amount these mothers received was only about $430 a month.

Single mothers are more likely to be poor than married couples. The poverty rate for single-mother families in 2013 was 39.6%, nearly five times more than the rate (7.6%) for married-couple families.

More than half (51.9%) live in extreme poverty with incomes below half of the federal poverty level — about $9,900 for a family of three. This translates into a weekly family budget of about $200.

Poverty rates were about one in two for Black (46.3%), Hispanic (46.5%), White (31.6%), and Asian (24.0%). Among all other ethnic groups, Native American female-headed families with children had the highest poverty rate (52.8%).

Single-parent families are among the poorest in the nation and as such, are extremely vulnerable to homelessness. Among all homeless families nationwide, over three quarters were headed by single women with children; two fifths were African Americans (43%).

Two fifths (45.8%) of all single mothers received food stamps. Among children with single mothers, 45% get food stamps and 55% don’t. Roughly two thirds received free or reduced-price meals.

Although two fifths of all single mothers are poor, only one tenth of all single mothers receive TANF. Though a small percentage, they represent more than 90% of all TANF families.

Black women are more likely to have children outside of marriage than other racial or ethnic groups. In that year, about 72% of births to black women were non-marital births.

Children born to young unmarried mothers are most likely to grow up in a single-parent household. More than two thirds end up on welfare.