More than two-thirds of live births in Myrtle Beach, S.C. were to unwed mothers, a new U.S. Census report has revealed. That ranks the Redneck Riviera’s crown jewel fourth among the nation’s cities in this category – behind Flagstaff, Arizona, Greenville, N.C., and Lima, Ohio.
Sumter, S.C. is also in the “Top Ten,” with 61.6 percent of its live births coming to unwed mothers (ninth highest nationally).
Statewide, South Carolina ranks fifth in the country with 43.9 percent of live births falling into the “non-marital” category. Only Rhode Island, New Mexico, Mississipi and Louisiana have higher percentages. Of course this state level data for South Carolina was conveniently left out of the Associated Press brief on this subject …
Anyway, nationally 35.7 percent of all live births were to unwed mothers – which is up from 31 percent in 2005.
Obviously not all of these “unwed births” are to single moms. A growing number of them are to parents who are in committed relationships, but who have decided for whatever reason not to marry.
CENSUS REPORT ON UNMARRIED BIRTHS (.pdf)
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How dare you use that term to refer to an innocent child.
*sigh* an education is wonderful thing.
bas·tard /?bæst?rd/
noun
1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
Figures, an Asian quoting the dictionary to correct an elderly round eye.
How about a calculus lesson next Master Chin?
How dare you use that term to refer to an innocent child.
*sigh* an education is wonderful thing.
bas·tard /?bæst?rd/
noun
1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
Figures, an Asian quoting the dictionary to correct an elderly round eye.
How about a calculus lesson next Master Chin?
Whores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loK3OJEp-SQ
Sorry Smirks. Had to vote you down just because cartoons are not deep political insight. Only reason. Nothing more.
Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
“cartoons are not deep political insight”
So much for Thomas Nast and a host of political cartoonists dating back to Civil War (and earlier).
Whores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loK3OJEp-SQ
Sorry Smirks. Had to vote you down just because cartoons are not deep political insight. Only reason. Nothing more.
Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
“cartoons are not deep political insight”
So much for Thomas Nast and a host of political cartoonists dating back to Civil War (and earlier).
Sumter’s inclusion on this list is probably related to the presence of Shaw, and people are probably screwing in Lima and Greenville for lack of anything better to do. As for Myrtle Beach, I bet if you tracked down the fathers, a good 60-70 percent would be from Ohio.
……or Canada?
Sumter’s inclusion on this list is probably related to the presence of Shaw, and people are probably screwing in Lima and Greenville for lack of anything better to do. As for Myrtle Beach, I bet if you tracked down the fathers, a good 60-70 percent would be from Ohio.
……or Canada?
Right! If you dislike the behavior of the parents, pick on them. But children, born in or out of wedlock, are innocent.
yes, absolutely. Let’s all stop with the proper use of the English language and conform our speech to your personal sensiblities. Who cares what the dictionary says?
And you’re an ass but don’t be offended because one of Webster’s definitions for that word is simply ‘beast of burden’.
BTW, Webster also defines bastard as
– a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person
– something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
Which makes it offensive no matter who you apply it to but especially bad when used to define a child.
So you just picked out the definition that suits you and thinks it gives you some academic high ground. But you’re still an ass.
I didn’t just pick a definition that suits me, I used the definition that is being used by FITS, the definition of the word bastard is a child born from unwed parents. This article is about children born from unwed parents.
It seems lost on you that you are the one randomly choosing a definition that suits you, a definition that is irrelevant to this article. Do you actually think FITS is abstractly referring to all of the children of these unwed parents as vicious, despicable, or throughly disliked?! If you do, seek help immediately.
And I am most certainly a beast of burden.
I dislike the term too but the reintroduction of a sense of shame about never-wed parenting is long overdue.
Soft touch but then when would the proper use of bastard present itself? When a
dude cuts you off in traffic I suppose.
If you dislike the behavior of the parents, pick on them. But children, born in or out of wedlock, are innocent. And I don’t care what Webster says the definition of bastard is, it’s an ugly way to define a child and you know it.
yes, absolutely. Let’s all stop with the proper use of the English language and conform our speech to your personal sensiblities. Who cares what the dictionary says?
And you’re an ass but don’t be offended because one of Webster’s definitions for that word is simply ‘beast of burden’.
BTW, Webster also defines bastard as
– a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person
– something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
Which makes it offensive no matter who you apply it to but especially bad when used to define a child.
So you just picked out the definition that suits you and thinks it gives you some academic high ground. But you’re still an ass.
I didn’t just pick a definition that suits me, I used the definition that is being used by FITS, the definition of the word bastard is a child born from unwed parents. This article is about children born from unwed parents.
It seems lost on you that you are the one randomly choosing a definition that suits you, a definition that is irrelevant to this article. Do you actually think FITS is abstractly referring to all of the children of these unwed parents as vicious, despicable, or throughly disliked?! If you do, seek help immediately.
And I am most certainly a beast of burden.
I dislike the term too but the reintroduction of a sense of shame about never-wed parenting is long overdue.
Soft touch but then when would the proper use of bastard present itself? When a
dude cuts you off in traffic I suppose.
of course it would be politically incorrect to offer the demographic breakdown, though one suspects the majority is white or mixed, by a slight margin and again nominally Christian (Christmas and Easter only).
BS. Race and gender are equal opportunity whores.
Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
I would be curious to see the demographic breakdown as well. My guess is more than 50% would be your conservative voting, family value espousing, Teabagger types.
Twice in the last year my brother and sister-in-law, two classic “family values” Teabaggers, have sent me invitations to baby showers for their pregnant and unmarried daughter. Thirty-forty years ago they would have sent her to the Florence Crittendon home to have the baby, now they celebrate the unwed pregnancy by having a baby shower. It’s a sorry world, but I guess Uncle Strom started it by getting that girl pregnant, so it’s okay.
No shame. That’s the missing factor. Shame.
of course it would be politically incorrect to offer the demographic breakdown, though one suspects the majority is white or mixed, by a slight margin and again nominally Christian (Christmas and Easter only).
BS. Race and gender are equal opportunity whores.
Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
I would be curious to see the demographic breakdown as well. My guess is more than 50% would be your conservative voting, family value espousing, Teabagger types.
Twice in the last year my brother and sister-in-law, two classic “family values” Teabaggers, have sent me invitations to baby showers for their pregnant and unmarried daughter. Thirty-forty years ago they would have sent her to the Florence Crittendon home to have the baby, now they celebrate the unwed pregnancy by having a baby shower. It’s a sorry world, but I guess Uncle Strom started it by getting that girl pregnant, so it’s okay.
No shame. That’s the missing factor. Shame.
BTW when do the “committed relationships” translate into “common law marriage” based on how long they’ve been shacking up?
1 year in SC
Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
BTW when do the “committed relationships” translate into “common law marriage” based on how long they’ve been shacking up?
1 year in SC
Have a Great Day!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
Fits would know.
Fits would know.
I would bet that a high number of the MB unwed mothers come here from elsewhere.
It’s a trashy place because we’ve allowed all the nudie clubs, casino gambling, tattoo and piercing parlors…
When the democrats and Liberal-Tarians shill for Filth, they don’t tell you about the social problems their irresponsbility and immoral behaving breed. It costs us, too.
Sumter is also a home to a lot of military imports and a very backwards, democrat-voting population.
Adapting liberalism from up north, has made way too many SC towns and cities unfit to live in. Sumter is a sad example of the Sliming of SC w/ democrat ideology.
amen brother! when will people wake up to the damage that liberal democrat control has done to our state! its time to vote republican.
I see what you did there.
>casino gambling
wut
required reading
Comrade Lincoln – obey him or die.
Hey T, hate to break it to ya, but Horry County, (Myrtle Beach’s location), is one of the reddest counties in a red state. Just look and see how many liberal Democrats win elections there. No Democratic Senators, House members, Congressman, and only two of twelve Democratic County Councilmen. Now, look in that teabagger mirror of yours and admit that Republicans advocating abstinence only education really works so well!
The people getting elected, and voting, are not the ones droppin’ illigits.
Not sure how familiar you are w/ The Strand, but there are more transplants from Ohio, Penn. NY and NJ there than native South Carolinians.
The older ones who have worked all their lives…may vote for Republicans…but the young ones droppin’ babies likely don’t vote. They just come for the Trashy liberal businesses. ..and like all liberals, the responsible people have to take care of them…
In South Carolina,
There is nothing finer
Than a vagina and a couple of tits–
This according to its “Founding Whiner”
And the jocular commentariat of Fits.
Except that no amount of money
Will make the above issue (pun intended) funny.
Many of those who are devoted to saving “taxpayer souls”
Become disenamored of the same old holes
And slither away to latitudes sunny.
In South Carolina,
There is nothing finer
Than a vagina and a couple of tits–
This according to its “Founding Whiner”
And the jocular commentariat of Fits.
Except that no amount of money
Will make the above issue (pun intended) funny.
Many of those who are devoted to saving “taxpayer souls”
Become disenamored of the same old holes
And slither away to latitudes sunny.
At least we are in the top 5…. of something….
At least we are in the top 5…. of something….
And all delivered by Medicaid and supported by WIC and Medicaid!
And all delivered by Medicaid and supported by WIC and Medicaid!
ah, c’mon! i do believe, SC’s county health departments give away free birth control
items. all one needs to do is go in, and they’ll walk out with it! protected against just this sort of thing!
so, it’s got to come
down to our folks being idiots, fools, or otherwise, clueless in how to take care of themselves! either way, and for the sake of me being consistent, i blame this too on the SC
state’s political attitude towards funding our public schools, teaching NOT just the ‘right’ [abstinence!] subjects in health classes, and the overall education we provide children!
So to me, these birthing stats are just more proof of us reaping what was sown! And for
this, God damn the planters who did the sowing! They are the real bastards!
ah, c’mon! i do believe, SC’s county health departments give away free birth control
items. all one needs to do is go in, and they’ll walk out with it! protected against just this sort of thing!
so, it’s got to come
down to our folks being idiots, fools, or otherwise, clueless in how to take care of themselves! either way, and for the sake of me being consistent, i blame this too on the SC
state’s political attitude towards funding our public schools, teaching NOT just the ‘right’ [abstinence!] subjects in health classes, and the overall education we provide children!
So to me, these birthing stats are just more proof of us reaping what was sown! And for
this, God damn the planters who did the sowing! They are the real bastards!
Don’t Tease Or Feed The Straight People
Don’t Tease Or Feed The Straight People
I know a few committed couples who purposely had children without marrying, because unwed mothers get more benefits from the state. They’re white, by the way
I know a bunch of negroes (porch monkeys) who had children just to increase the monthly income. Never considered marriage. Like wild animals
I know a few toothless crackers doing the same thing.
Being a double-extra needs child, it must have been hard on your parents…with no financial aid for the children of incest.
Check the welfare rolls…mostly ‘white’ people. SC & nation wide. People whine about tax dollars going to welfare families. Check out where your dollars really go…too big to fail banks, military mis-adventure… You have more in common with a welfare family than a mega-rich foreign banker.
I know a few committed couples who purposely had children without marrying, because unwed mothers get more benefits from the state. They’re white, by the way
I know a bunch of negroes (porch monkeys) who had children just to increase the monthly income. Never considered marriage. Like wild animals
I know a few toothless crackers doing the same thing.
Being a double-extra needs child, it must have been hard on your parents…with no financial aid for the children of incest.
Check the welfare rolls…mostly ‘white’ people. SC & nation wide. People whine about tax dollars going to welfare families. Check out where your dollars really go…too big to fail banks, military mis-adventure… You have more in common with a welfare family than a mega-rich foreign banker.
U.S. President Frank Marshall Davis, Jr., has a plan for your child.
Who be yo daddy?
U.S. President Frank Marshall Davis, Jr., has a plan for your child.
Who be yo daddy?
Obama seems to be a bastard child.
Obama seems to be a bastard child.
Soooooo, Rhode Island? Anyone else shocked at that? I always thought of RI as a toity state of rich New Englanders who get married first, or at least have the social dignity to have their child sucked into an abortionist’s sink.
Soooooo, Rhode Island? Anyone else shocked at that? I always thought of RI as a toity state of rich New Englanders who get married first, or at least have the social dignity to have their child sucked into an abortionist’s sink.
Wait a minute! I thought we lived in a Republican red state with good Christian values?
Wait a minute! I thought we lived in a Republican red state with good Christian values?