You should care. The taxes we you pay help to fund social services programs -- like welfare and government housing -- so people don't starve, despite their irresponsible actions.

Simply "paying" for the babies men make isn't enough; that isn't fathering children. I abhor all men -- not just pro athletes -- for recklessly spraying their seed about without shouldering responsibility. On the other side, the mothers of "unwanted" babies are not innocent, either. Thumbs down to them as well.

And thumbs up to the Sun-Times for printing the story. The Bears, since their NFC title game win over the Saints on 1/21, have had an embarrassing year on and off the field.

I have no platform or energy to fight for this lady and persecuted mothers and fatherless children across the country. I have to work hard for me and my family.

but id take measures to make sure iw ouldnt have a kid (wrap lil frankie up) .

Or make yourself unattractive to the opposite sex

Whose to blame?

I feel sorry for the kids who are used as pawns in all of this.

I tried to be a WNBA groupie but it didn't work for some reason. Maybe I'll try the LPGA next. I should have better luck.

You should care. The taxes we you pay help to fund social services programs -- like welfare and government housing -- so people don't starve, despite their irresponsible actions.

Simply "paying" for the babies men make isn't enough; that isn't fathering children. I abhor all men -- not just pro athletes -- for recklessly spraying their seed about without shouldering responsibility. On the other side, the mothers of "unwanted" babies are not innocent, either. Thumbs down to them as well.

And thumbs up to the Sun-Times for printing the story. The Bears, since their NFC title game win over the Saints on 1/21, have had an embarrassing year on and off the field.

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Plus, someone like Mackeyfish who proudly paraded about in Zubaz in the not too distant past really shouldn't be criticizing anyone's appearance.

The TMZ mentality in the sports world and entertainment world is just as annoying to me as the behavior of the overpaid athlete and the women who follow them

I do care that we have so many babies born out of wedlock, so many people on welfare, so much money (taxes) going to situations like this just as much as I hate the drug problem going on in suburban schools that lead to me paying their medical bills. But I don't care that Briggs is doing it anymore than some guy in Naperville that I have never heard of. I'm not more embarrassed by a Chicago Bear doing it than I am anyone else. I only root for Briggs to tackle people (which they don't seem to like to do these days). I do think they are role models, and that is sad, but I don't know why we have to report Briggs doing these things. Maybe if we only paid attention to the athletes on the field and quit trying to worry about anything they do off the field, maybe they wouldn't *be* role models.

The TMZ mentality in the sports world and entertainment world is just as annoying to me as the behavior of the overpaid athlete and the women who follow them.

Like I said, I'm not happy Briggs is doing it but I feel the same way about the tens of thousands of men who do this -- and most of them have jobs that I hope they do well, too.

It is a society problem, not a Chicago Bear problem.

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• Countless studies show that fatherlessness, not race, is by far the most accurate predictor that a child will end up in poverty or in prison. And today, about 70 percent of black children are born into fatherless homes compared to 25 percent of white children.
• 85 percent of all black children living in poverty are raised in single-parent homes.
• The incomes of fatherless black families are only about one-fourth as high as the incomes of two-parent black families. A similar disparity exists among white one- and two-parent families.
• Ever since 1981, black families with two college-educated, working adults have earned more than similar white families in every age group and in every region of the United States. As early as 1970, black two-parent families outside of the South were already earning more than comparable white families.
• Black full-time workers today earn slightly more than white workers of the same age, sex, and I.Q.
• Because of affirmative action, black applicants are much more likely than white applicants to be admitted to the college of their choice, even though whites score about 200 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Source

Rubbish. Your claims are not cited in your source, your source makes specious arguments, and the data derivation is outcome driven.

black men are less likely to marry in turn contributes to the 69 percent black out-of-wedlock birth rate and the corresponding high child poverty rate.

This study analyzes differences in black and white child poverty based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a large-scale multi-year national survey funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies. The NLSY is a statistically valid sample of 12,686 young men and women who were between the ages of 14 and 22 when they were first interviewed in 1979. These individuals have been re-interviewed continually since then and are now in their thirties and forties. This Heritage study covers events in the lives of these individuals between 1979 and 1996.