Young single girls do not need to be having babies while trying to grow up and get an education. The only cure for this is for them to stop playing grown up games. This situation says a lot about the society in which we live. More babies are born to single black women than single white women but the statistics are changing. In the last few years the black women have been having less babies. What makes this situation so heartbreaking is that the girls are too young. What do they know about being mothers? Most drop out of school.

That of course stopped many young and highly capable young blacks from furthering their education thus keeping them below the poverty lines. Now of course, schools and educational systems have stepped in and are teaching these young mothers how to care for their new babies while still going to school. The high schools in most larger areas now have nurseries for the babies. Babies and moms both go to school.

Unwed motherhood, or divorced parents, or however single parenthood is classified, means simply that one parent is raising the children alone. While black single girls are being singled out here for discussion, the situation is likewise for white students of all social and economic groups. It is a problem faced by all groups.Economically, it is worse for the groups mentioned here.

Life styles and lowered influence by church and less supervision and the permissive sexual revolution has all worked together to create this deplorable condition; that of children having children. What else is a girl at twelve or thirteen having a baby but a child. Black or white. For a society to allow this to happen is a black mark against that society.

What can be done to see that black single girls (and all young single girls) learn what is in store for them if they disregard the rules of society and become parents before they have even put childhood behind them? This is a tragedy of our times and it must be addressed.  It cannot be allowed to continue.

Families are important. Where do we start preaching and teaching that? A child needs both a father and a mother to grow up learning how to love and to respect both men and women. Each have extremely important roles to play in helping their children to grow up into mature and caring parents.

To allow them to at first have a baby and then be forced to care for it properly is getting the cart before the horse. They should at first learn all about themselves and then set out to find a proper mate and then start their families. Sex should be left out of it.

Hopefully, this is being understood to be the way the world is supposed to work. Let’s hope all single young women will be able to learn this. And lets hope the black young men will understand they are an important leader in the future of their society. Far too long they have been the one less blamed with too much of the problems of society.

Future headlines and studies I would like to see are those citing the new emergence of pride and education among black young men. They too have a say in whether a young black girl, or a young white girls gets pregnant. In fact, all young people need to see and understand the future is theirs, and if they do not care enough to learn how to manage it, then what else can they expect but more one parent families.