Reply #42: That's fine but

[Yupster]

at the turn of the last century in 1900, A-A's had the highest marriage rate of any group in society. Births out of marriage were extremely rare. Today more than two-thirds of A-A births are outside of marriage. With those numbers, I just have a hard time blaming this problem on slavery.

Unless it was a problem that had a time bomb on it.

For 400 years, A-A's were mostly not allowed to legally marry and therefore almost every birth was outside of marriage. Then once A-A's could marry legally, they did so in overwhelming numbers and led every group in having their children being brought up in married families.

Then 100 years after slavery ended, a delayed action bomb went off causing A-A's to stop getting married and start having the majority of their kids outside of marriage.

To blame slavery for this problem I'd have to believe in the delayed action bomb theory which I just can't buy.

edited so Conan th Grammarian doesn't get me