Check each of the following that are true.
Whites have the highest illegitimacy rates, now surpassing 70 percent, with one-parent households led
by single mothers 91 percent of the time.
Unfortunately, unmarried birth rates skyrocketed for all racial groups in the decades following LBJ's
Great Society and War on Poverty
Asians have the lowest illegitimacy rates, that is, children born to unmarried parents
Asians have significantly higher educational attainment than other racial groups, while Hispanics have
the least.
In 2008, Barack Obama explained the devastating effects of fatherlessness by noting that "children who
grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times
more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison."