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Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 2:24PM 
With a new report disclosing 48 percent of children are born to unwed mothers, Americans should be doing some soul searching.
Study after study has indicated that single motherhood is risky and costly. The latest comes from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 9:13AM 
Photo of newly married couple taken in May, 1943 is by Marjory Collins from the Office of War Information Photograph Collection.From US Library of Congress.Dan Quayle was right.
I remember the hoopla in the 1990s surrounding Republican vice-president Dan Quayle’s speech about the Murphy Brown character on the show of the same name. Candice Bergen played the lead role, and toward the middle years of the series, her character becomes a single mom.
The father of the child didn’t want to be a parent, something he apparently didn’t think about at a pivotal moment.
Quayle was critical of the Murphy Brown out of wedlock storyline because he believed it devalued fathers. He made a speech expressing that sentiment and the result was a poli-class furor.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:03AM Commentary by Kay B. Day
Parents assisted by the Southern Legal Counsel and Fund Education Now have filed lawsuits against Florida’s education system. Complaints include the state’s failure “to provide the necessary resources for education,” The Florida Times-Union said. That failure causes low regular-diploma type graduation rates and lack of school safety. These groups follow the lead of the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit, Aho et al. vs. Charlie Crist et al., filed in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida.
The lawsuits apparently have to do with how much money is allocated to schools. One parent cited by the T-U said it actually had to do more with how the money is spent, although the paper said that the lawsuit mainly addresses funding in general.
Most studies and lawsuits claiming to act on behalf of students break school populations down by racial groups. Most always cite a gap between whites, hispanics and blacks.
