claim: "more than 72 percent of children in the african-american community are born out of wedlock."
author: don lemon
evidence_1: aug 5, 2014 ... there is one number that is always mentioned in the discussion of black children  born out of wedlock: 72 percent. estimations place the growing number of  children born to unwed mothers in the 70th percentile of the black population in  america. the documentary '72 percent,' “takes a hard look at the ...
evidence_2: jun 21, 2013 ... one obvious reason that you have a higher percentage of children born out of  wedlock in the black community is that the number of unmarried women (mothers  or not) has ... indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having  more kids than married white women, they are now having less.
evidence_3: the family structure of african-americans has long been a matter of national  public policy interest. a 1965 report by daniel patrick moynihan, known as the  moynihan report, examined the link between black poverty and family structure.  it hypothesized that the destruction of the black nuclear family structure would  hinder ...
evidence_4: nov 7, 2010 ... some bring their children or their mothers. only one brings a husband. things  move slowly here. women sit shoulder-to-shoulder in the narrow waiting room,  sometimes for more than an hour. carroll does not rush her mothers in and out.  she wants her babies born as healthy as possible, so carroll spends ...
evidence_5: jun 8, 2015 ... one fact that levs quickly establishes is that most black fathers in america live  with their children: “there are about 2.5 million black fathers living with their  children and about 1.7 million living apart from them.” ... “so then,” you may ask, “ how is it that 72 percent of black children are born to single mothers?