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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 August 2012 09:46:59PM 2 points [-]

Compare the situation today with the situation 60 years ago. Notice what is and isn't different.

All sorts of things.

Specifically, I was referring to the fact that Blacks were even poorer back than so following the argument CronoDAS's link was making we would expect there to be more unwed motherhood among them. On the other hand unwed motherhood was much more stigmatized (and no it didn't involve laws forbidding doctors from treating teen mothers).