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...Native Son crisis is contributing to the breakdown of the family structure in the inner city, a trend that is seen as both a cause and an effect of the poverty cycle. According to Census Bureau statistics, nearly two-thirds of all black children are born to unwed mothers. Of the nation's 4.6 million black families with children, 2.6 million are headed by a single woman -- and in some ghetto areas it is estimated to be close to 90%. As a result, most inner-city black children never know the experience of having a father at home with steady...
...that most men pay full child support, although one speaker disagreed at a workshop. Before a skeptical audience, Darryl Larson, an assistant district attorney for Oregon's Lane County, said, "Nonsupport is a tragedy rampant in America -- 60% to 80% quit paying after the first two years." Indeed, the Census Bureau reports that in 1983 only 50% of the women who were supposed to receive child support got the full amount...
...least one set of statistics appears to confirm an erosion of the middle class, though hardly an upheaval. While the middle class has never officially been defined, the group could reasonably be described as those families with incomes between the Census Bureau brackets of $15,000 and $49,999. According to the census, the proportion of U.S. families in that category, after adjustment for inflation, shrank from 65.1% in 1970 to 58.2% in 1985 (see chart). The trend is far from being a completely odious phenomenon, though. The statistics show that more families departing the middle class have moved...
Other dissenters acknowledge that the size of middle-class income might have been squeezed a bit but chalk up the problem to temporary factors. Gordon Green, assistant chief of the population division at the Census Bureau, believes the flood of young baby boomers into the job market is responsible for a dip in middle-class wages. Says Green: "Since so many of the baby boomers were in entry-level jobs, they pulled down the overall average. As they get more experienced, productivity should go up and their income as well...
Using projections from the 1980 census, Moorman estimates 66% of college- educated 30-year-old women will someday marry, as will 23% of 40-year-olds and 11% of 45-year-olds. She concedes her figures may be a bit high, but believes the Yale-Harvard numbers, which are based on a different statistical model, are too low. Says Moorman: "I just didn't think life should be that...