A recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services shows nearly 40 percent of U.S. babies are born to unmarried moms. Just a few decades ago, the numbers were markedly lower, yet the country seemed more concerned. In 1965, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report detailing out-of-wedlock births in the black community and calling for national action. Robert Rector, senior research fellow in domestic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, said, “This decline of marriage is not an accident, but a deliberate result of policy—a policy of neglect. I’m not sure we can reclaim the ground as long as predominantly liberal institutions run Congress, the media, our universities and so forth,” he said.
