Tuesday, August 12, 2014

'72 Percent' Documentary Confronts The Black Community's Single-Parent 'Epidemic'

There is one number that is always mentioned in the discussion of black children born out of wedlock: 72 percent.
Estimations place the growing number of children born to unwed mothers in the 70th percentile of the black population in America. The documentary ‘72 Percent,’ “takes a hard look at the single mother phenomena in the African American community.”
The documentary aims to analyze “beyond catastrophic” statistics through a discussion of the effect of welfare policies, social norms and celebrity examples on this “disturbing epidemic.”
Director Jeremy Batchelor also follows the story of a single-mother who shares her perspective of the struggle to raise her three children without a father.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/72-percent-black-fatherhood_n_5648759.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular 

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