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kente417mojo said:IMO, I don't think there is anything we can do to get this trend under control. People will never stop having unprotected sex because it's unnatural. No one wants a bag over their penis when they're having sex and not too many women want foreign material rubbing and creating friction in their vagina either, and for good reason. Most, if not all birth control (including condoms) have side effects that affect you reproductive organs. On top of that, there are many men and women that have no intention of getting married with or without children. Men don't want to be taken to the jugde to get financially raped in the event of divorce (which is more likely in this country than a successful marriage). Going back to our African heritage isn't going to work because the majority of African Americans have no clue where to start, and even if they did, they don't want to because it's not something that's engrained in them from birth. I agree though, just because many babies are being born to unmarried women, doesn't mean there is no man in the picture. I have noticed that women like to brag about how much they have to take on, but fail to shed light on the fact that the only part of the relationship that the man is not involved in, is the relationship with her. There are men who have a large impact on their child even though they don't live with them, but these men don't get any credit.
Wow, Brother Kente, we was just discussion this among other things in chat yesterday. I agree, alot of Brothers arent getting the credit they deserve and it's because the Government and media, makes it so. There is always some negative aspect of black folks lives that is dispayed world wide.
The Black folks who are doing the right things rarely gets coverage and acknowledgement. For the most part, I believe many Black Men who are actively participating in their childs lives, does get praise and acknowledgement from their immediate family. However, we can't ignore the growing trend of absent parents. With the baby boom rising, we have to consider the possibility of children growing up in single parent homes. The downside of it, and how to re-create the patterns of two parents occuppying the same home. When indulging in sexual relations without the use of protection, children or often born to single parents. If two people decides not to get married for whatever reasons, they should make sure that each will be prepared and ready to support that child mentally, emotionally, and financially.
Its time we change this pattern and give our future generation the tools they'll need for productive, family oriented lives, as well as the means to acheive finacial stability.