IT is widely believed that the municipal ghetto spawns social and personal problems at an alarmingly high rate. The belief is supported by statistics. Although the U.S. black population, at 23 million, is only one-ninth as large as the white, there are nearly as many black drug addicts (31,184) as white (32,624) according to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics figures based on police reports. The last available illegitimacy rate is 4.9% for all live white births as against 29.4% for nonwhite births. U.S. census figures report 29% fatherless black households as against 9% fatherless white households.
Illegitimacy may in many cases be...
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