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Black Women: To Be Married Or Not To Be Married?

*The question on a lot of women’s minds, whether white or black, is to be married or not to be married?

But there’s a problem when black women shoulder the burden of the plight of the black community falling behind in education, but offering skyrocketing crime and more unwed mothers.

There are crusaders on both sides of the debate that black women should marry, but the consensus appears to be that black women do not want to be held accountable for what they feel is a shortage of black men to marry.

According to MSNBC, the statistics are as follows:

“The black community’s 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available.

The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.” (more…)