Sadly enough since 2005 in the two areas mentioned above, the Tarheel state hasn't made significant improvement. This travesty of course continues to negatively impact the Economy for all North Carolina residents. Especially during this current Recession.
In North Carolina (particularly Mecklenburg County) too many Low-Income, Unwed mothers are still having Illegitimate baby after baby after baby and doing so without receiving any money from the fathers.
Needless to say many of these young women are or have lied to local DSS officials concerning the whereabouts of the "babies daddies", when in reality the men are actually living/ still sleeping with the mothers.
WTF?? How can this be??
What's the financial impact to state taxpayers?
$300 Mil a Year!
That's right! $300 Million a year forced on NC Tax Payers!
So do you mean to tell me that while most North Carolinians are working hard and paying taxes, these young, "Human Baby Factories" and lazy men are living high on the hog of the fruits of our labor with North Carolina DSS Officials knowledge?
Yes that's exactly what I'm saying!
Forget the "Tax Tea Parties"!
We need to establish nationwide Teen Pregnancy Prevention protests!
Oh I know once they get wind of this morning's blog post on the subject and actually read it, North Carolina DSS Officials are going to of course refute the contents of this post, however the proof of what I've written can be verified in the facts.
The North Carolina Child Support Enforcement Agency claims that 100% of all Children born in the state out of wedlock, have their Paternity established.
THIS IS A BIG LIE!
I have personally spoken with a large number of Unmarried, young teens/ women residing in North Carolina, whose children have no ideas who their fathers are.
Why?
In efforts to help the male sperm donors of these children evade their fiscal responsiblity, foolish, young mothers are falsely reporting to DSS/ Child Support Enforcement officials to not know the whereabouts of the men involved.
Those young mothers also receive NO Child Support from those men because Legal Paternity has NOT been established.
Thus if anyone thinks I'm publishing fabrications just to attract readers, why don't you conduct your own Fact Checking on this subject?
Why not get in your car and pay a visit to many of North Carolina's Low-Income communities and interview some of the young, unwed mothers who reside in those communities?
You can even take it a step further by playing the "I Spy a Baby's Daddy game". Just wait until night fall and observe how many biological, "male sperm donors" of these neglected children will come crawling out of the woodworks like insects, sneaking back into the residences of these young women.
If you hang around a little longer, in about 4 to 5 months you will see the stomachs of these same young women bulging once more with another baby on the way.
You can also pay a visit to some of North Carolina's prisons to interview a large number of the African-American, Male prisoners, asking them if they have a any illegitimate children on the outside, how many children and have they ever helped to support those children.
Even better, why not (with the parent's/ legal guardian's permission) just interview many of the 10,000+ children in North Carolina's Foster Care system or many of the Low-Income students attending the state's failing, Poverty level Public School yards and ask them "do you know your father or have you ever seen your father give your mother/ legal guardian any money?"
Lastly you can pay a visit to North Carolina's Funeral homes and interview the Funeral Home Directors regarding the number of children whose bodies they've had to prep, who died from Child Abuse or Neglect within the last ten years.
Why are these young teens/ women being allowed to continue having baby after baby after baby at the expense of North Carolina taxpayers? especially in this tight recession?
Well why not also work to reform the state's Child Support/ DSS system too? What better time to overhaul the way North Carolina enforces its Child Support Collection laws and the way North Carolina doles out Welfare money to its Neediest citizens.
The question of the day remains as to why is it that North Carolina DSS Officials won't consult with the U.S. Dept of Justice on how to make it Legally, Constitutionally Mandatory that these young women (and some older, unwed women too) participate in some type of Federal Family Planning program in order to continue receiving any type of Welfare Benefits?
Please understand I am in no way suggesting that North Carolina DSS Officials should disenfranchise the innocent children involved by withholding food, shelter, medical care, pre-school education, public school education, etc., just to punish their scheming parents.
However I am suggesting that these young women and scheming, lazy men be held accountable for their Intentional LACK of sexual control. (Except in the case of Rape.)
Call this type of Government intervention SOCIALISM if you please, but when dealing with this kind of issue which so adversely affects our communities, you can't have your cake and eat it too!
Now which scenario would the fine citizens of North Carolina rather experience:
1) Continuing to Financially Support these scheming young girls/ women obviously lacking in Healthy Self-Esteem, along with the Manipulating, Lazy, Predatory men who are using these girls/ women? or.....
2) Curb this Financially Destructive behavior with Government Intervention until the state of North Carolina begins to notice a significant drop in the annual number of teen/ unwed mother births?
If North Carolina DSS/ Child Support Enforcement Officials refuse to help stop this Human Rights Injustice (its the children, mostly African-American children who are suffering) from re-occurring, then by allowing such an injustice to continue can ONLY be due to the state benefiting Financially from the births of these children, via receiving more Federal funding for each child's existence.
For such practices to be carried out just to help fill in North Carolina's budget gaps, is a tragedy. A tragedy for which I strongly believe God will harshly judge the state of North Carolina for one day.
(Note: Where is the Outcry from North Carolina's Black Leaders on this issue?????)
N.C. currently has one of the highest rate of Teenage Pregnancies in the United States. A rate nearly 19% higher than national average. This number remains steady since 2007.
Since 2007 official N.C. vital statistics showed even higher rates than the Center for Disease Control report.
Statewide there were about 19,615 teen pregnancies, or 63 per 1,000 girls, according to the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics.
Nearly 30 percent of North Carolina’s children live in asset poor households. Most of those homes are headed by Single Mothers who receive no Child Support from the Absent Fathers.
The disparity between white and minority teen pregnancy rates has narrowed, and the rate dropped among most minority populations in the past year. Black teens still have the highest teen pregnancy rate
However, the minority teen pregnancy rate was still 1.6 times higher than that of for white teens in 2007, compared with two times higher in 1992.
Hispanic teens had the highest pregnancy rate at 167.4 per 1,000 girls in 2007. That rate has fallen 3.3 percent since 2006 and nearly 7 percent since 2003.
The rate of African-American teen pregnancy rose slightly last year to 87.1 per 1,000. The number of pregnancies among American Indian teens and other minority groups was too low to calculate reliable rates.
Only a third of teen mothers graduate from high school, and even by age 30, they are often still only earning 58 percent of what non-teen mothers do.
The percentage of low birth-weight babies (less than 2,500 grams) decreased, from 8.3 percent in 2006 to 8.2 percent in 2007. Over the past few decades, low birth weight rates have steadily risen; this is the first decline since 1984.
Sources: WRAL, Huffington Post, Action for Children, Pro Choice North Carolina, About.com, adoptuskids.org, Starnewsonline, U.S. News & World Report, Guardian.co.uk, Medical News Today, Citizen Times, ANCPR, CWLA, MSNBC, News-record, Newsobserver, OK magazine, law.onecle.com, Childwelfare.gov, dhhs.state.nc.us, NCGA, North Carolina Institute of Medicine, Youtube, Google Maps
"Throughout my career, I've been a consistent and strong supporter of reproductive justice, and have consistently had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. ... And I will continue to defend this right by passing the Freedom of Choice Act as president."
The Health budget also set aside $178 million to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, but slashedfunding for programs that limited themselves exclusively to teaching Sexual Abstinence. The budget emphasized that it was devoting money to teen-pregnancy prevention approaches that had been proven to work, in effect saying there was no scientific evidence that favored abstinence-only programs over those that situated abstinence education within a larger framework that included teaching teenagers how to practice safe sex if they chose not to be abstinent.
Sources: Whitehouse.gov, Washington Post, MSNBC, Today Show, Flickr
On the "Today Show" this morning 18-year-old Bristol Palin (daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin) shared the harsh realities of being a Teen Mother.
Hopefully someone was listening.
Especially the DSS Officials in North Carolina, where Teen Pregnancies cost Tax Payers more than $300 Million dollars each year.
Bristol just happens to come from a Wealthy family but for most young girls who end up pregnant, its the Welfare system that provides for their babies.
Check out some of Bristol's statements and the interview with show host Matt Lauer below. "My baby is not a mistake, he's a blessing but it's been really hard." "If your going to have Sex, you should have Safe Sex."
"Teens should learn from my example, and that abstinence is the only way to ensure you don't get pregnant."
Sources: MSNBC, Today Show, Huffington Post, Youtube, Flickr
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