Indeed the above is a "social" issue ( not in the form you project) with respect to the changing mores in society, etc. Many people live together without marrying, there are different kinds of marriages ( gay folks are raising babies) and there are different approach raising children. But that is a different story from Mitwah's post.

He intends to intervene to rescue those who 3000 kids who are forced out of school by teenage pregnancies. One has to fortify the simplistic "just say no" advice with meaningful advices about birth control etc and also with programs to aid those who will become dependent on the society if they do not acquire an education. These young mothers has to be helped with pre natal care, post natal support to ease their burden and that of the child and also to ensure programs exist to facilitate their education both as mothers and in academics.

Indeed, assistance is needed from centuries of this issue.

Who are the ones that should provide the needed help?

 Did we not say it is a social problem? Are we not social because we have organizations dedicated to facilitating better quality of life for citizens? Do you not then anticipate that in some form such help will come or should come from an NGO or an agency of government? If you know some other source then please feel free to inform us or rather me

Inform you to achieve what?

Sorry, today is not  a "lets be patient with the obdurate, old crabby man's day". I have no time for you to day. Entertain yourself.

Yugi:

The percentage of children born outside of marriage has skyrocketed, with a six-fold increase since 1960.

Mitwah: Yugi could you please provide a chart showing the same as it relates to Guyana? I have no problem if you want to break it out by race. I agree with you that the problem is a deep social issue. I appreciate your chart but I don't see it as pertinent.

What programs are in place as Stormborn pointed out:

These young mothers has to be helped with pre natal care, post natal support to ease their burden and that of the child and also to ensure programs exist to facilitate their education both as mothers and in academics.

The graph is pertinent. It is very troubling and especially so for the Black community. Community leadership seems lacking since we do not see them speaking out on this major social issue.

Parenting skills and father figures in homes are very very important. Are these skills lacking in some communities ?

It appears that a troubling "norm" trend is setting in some communities in comparison to others. We need to face reality before we can address this major social issue.

DG raised a valid question. 

So, take a rest and return when you are fit.

How is your graph pertinent to the ( GOG Numbers) 3000  statuary rapes in Guyana that have been swept under the rugs for quite some now?

Take a close look and you will get a grasp of what groups are committing these acts. It is a no brainer.

Your chart is not contemporaneous nor synchronous to the issue of 3000 underage girls dropping out of school due to pregnancy.  Your racial profiling as depicted by your chart does not match the demographics of Guyana mosaic and culture.

 Why don't you tell us what study you looked at you racist punk? Those collecting the data on abuse inclusive of rapes and incest in Guyana  insist it is a national disease and  with no significant skewing of the numbers to any group. Note also, incest is a large contributor to suicides and were we to be as dumb as you we would conclude that since  more Indians die of suicide then more are victims of incest. Just do a cursory search on the people arrested for incest and it might surprise you. More indians are also arrested here but again that can be for other reasons as well. Idiots  like you contribute to this disease in our society since you relinquish your responsibility to be vigilant and say "other people do this not us". Sadly you are grossly wrong as usual.

As for the out of wedlock and single family households you are also way off the mark. More white people get married but practically one half are divorced in 5 years. More people in general  now deliberately selecting to remain single or to live together and not get married. There is a problem of replenishing white population on account of this since they are experiencing negative growth. The point I am making there are many reasons why black unwed numbers are as they are inclusive  unfair practice on the front end of the justice system inclusive of laws like the tree strikes rule and the Rockefeller rule. But an shallow idiot like you sees it only as a racial deficiency.

Further, there only reason this is a problem is because of the economic circumstance of unwed mothers and single parent homes. Under the right programs to address this in our changing society where marriage is losing its grip for numerous reasons, the ill effects of single parent households can be eased dramatically.

The fact that we had four Presidents from single parent households, among many other successful people from  single households or broken households. Jobs ( who was abandoned by an absconding syrian father) was adopted out, Benjamen Bratt came from a single parent home and so was Phelps.  Again, it is not the single parent home that is the problem but the diminished economic  resources that would ideally be there if there were two parents providing support to the kids ( financial or otherwise)

Da cainsta came from a orphanage an look how he turn out, good good.