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Originally Posted by Danzig

But just because the unwed birth rate is going down doesn't mean that the panic over single motherhood is likely to recede. The majority of Americans believe crime is getting worse, but crime is actually way down since the ’90s. Most Americans also believe teen pregnancy is on the rise, when in fact it's in a sharp decline. So we'll probably continue to hear about how single mothers are responsible for every social ill imaginable.

So true. Even when confronted with facts contradicting a position, it's very hard to get someone to change that position. Jonathan Swift put it best back in the 18th century: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."