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"While
having an illegitimate child often dooms the mother to a life of poverty,
illegitimacy may doom her children to far worse. Prisons, fostercare homes and
homeless shelters teem with fatherless children. An illegitimate baby is three
times more likely to fail at school, three times more likely to commit suicide,
and from 20 to 33 times more likely to suffer child abuse than are the children
of low-income married parents. His prospects in later life are just as grim: 70
percent of long term prisoners, 60 percent of rapists, and 75 percent of
adolescents charged with murder grew up without fathers. No urban reform could
have a greater effect, if successful, than attacking the culture of single
parenthood." - Heather Mac Donald |