Christelyn Karazin notes at Family Scholars that one South Carolina midwife's efforts to reduce the out-of-wedlock birthrate in the black community are being challenged by the elites, but supported by other midwives:
... what gave me pause and encouragement, were the comments from 122 women who weighed in on Urban Midwifery. From the sounds of it, attitudes about normalizing the abnormal may be starting to change.
One reader said this:
I applaud this sister for taking a stand on an issue that has been plaguing the black/Latino communities for almost 30 years. Regardless of whether you believe marriage is for you, you have to be blind not to see how damaging the baby mama epidemic is to the success of our culture.
…and frank talk I can appreciate from another:
Black women are the only ones who settle for crumbs or settle for having several kids – not just one – without expecting the man to marry her.
Overwhelmingly, [the midwife's] work was supported quite plain. It looks like people are feeling more free to say “the sky is blue,” and that’s a very, very good thing.
Hopefully, her example may lead to midwives working in other communities, including the Euro-American community, to do the same.
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This is an amazing confirmation of what the modern, badly thought out, radical against ourselves, type of ideas about man / woman relationships modelling animal behavior cause not only to children, but to women who are left unprotected outside marriage.
I believe a woman with her own children sacrifices and somehow manages to raise them, but in focusing on her sacrifice, could trigger the abandonment of the man partner.
It is also refreshing to note that the support of marriage is more than showing civil marriage, as is in most States, is not discriminatory, for it has a Public purpose.
When same-gender couples of homosexual behavior claim discrimination or call other people bigots, we must remind them that it is exactly the question under consideration (not the conclusion) - whether it is discrimination or not - under legal definitions, because it is a civil matter.
What is the relevance? Did same sex marriage cause the high rate of out-of-wedlock births in the African American community?
Your posts are no longer about protecting "traditional marriage." They are so off message.
This subject is quite applicable to issues in same-sex "marriage." African-American communities are full of strong matriarchies (which are essentially same-sex couples/groups) trying to raise fatherless children. Clearly, fatherlessness matters, as evidenced by the high rate of dysfunction in the African-American community. Same-sex "marriage" claims that children do not need both a mother and a father. The matriarchies and fatherless children of the A.A. community beg to differ.