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200 Years and Out?

ANEW study of nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century censuses shows that black children have always been more likely to be raised in broken families than white children. “Single parenthood among blacks has nothing to do with welfare,” says the author of the study, University of Minnesota historian Steven Ruggles.

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200 Years and Out?

ANEW study of nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century censuses shows that black children have always been more likely to be raised in broken families than white children. “Single parenthood among blacks has nothing to do with welfare,” says the author of the study, University of Minnesota historian Steven Ruggles.