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Showing posts with label Centers for Disease Control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centers for Disease Control. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

What About Male Domestic Violence?

According to the Domestic Violence Research Center, like all domestic violence statistics, male victims of domestic violence are underreported. However, the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Justice estimate 835,000 men are victimized by domestic violence in addition to 1.5 million women every year.

Men? Where are the shelters accepting anyone other than women and children?

Unfortunately, we didn't hear anyone mention male victims during Domestic Violence Awareness Month

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

40% of Babies are Born to Unmarried Women - Conspiracy Theorists Call Their Children "Anchor Babies"

The U.S. birth rate hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a Centers for Disease Control report.

“The 2011 preliminary number of U.S. births was 3,953,593, 1 percent less (or 45,793 fewer) births than in 2010; the general fertility rate (63.3 per 1,000 women age 15-44 years) declined to the lowest rate ever reported for the United States,” said the report.

Particularly interesting is that 40% of all babies born in 2011, were born to unmarried women. That means 1,606,087 babies were born to unmarried women compared to the 2,347,087 born to married women in 2011.

The conspiracy filled blogs and news articles suggest these unmarried women are birthing "anchor babies" and "the future carjackers of America."  Evidently, those commentators neglected to read the CDC report, or even glance at its Abstract. The total number of non-marital births has been on a three year decline.

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Check out the CDC Report.