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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; african americans</title>
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	<description>An intellectual climate favorable to marriage</description>
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		<title>Black Marriage Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/08/04/black-marriage-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Acton Institute friend Anthony Bradley has this in World magazine today, on the Black Marriage Crisis. Read it and weep. In the black community, the institution of marriage is essentially dead. While marriage in Western developed nations is declining in general, the black community and black women are being disproportionately affected. Unless marriage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marry, for the health of your baby</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/21/marry-for-the-health-of-your-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Here is a useful little nugget of information &#8212; an abstract describing a study that showed the protective effect of marriage for the health of newborn babies. The study concerned African American women and showed that the lowest risk for a low birth weight baby was found when marriage preceded childbirth for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/07/freedom-is-not-enough-the-moynihan-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/07/freedom-is-not-enough-the-moynihan-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday (July 5th) I listened to a broadcast on the Diane Rehm Show of an interview with James T. Patterson, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America&#8217;s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama. That title was already on my long (long&#8230;) wish-list of books I’d like to buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Risk, Increasing AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/02/reducing-risk-increasing-aids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/02/reducing-risk-increasing-aids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigh. Why doesn&#8217;t anyone pay attention to this stuff? by Matthew Hanley The predominant Western approach to preventing the spread of AIDS in Africa has failed. Though in theory the risk reduction strategies favored by Western governments and aid agencies—handing out condoms, promoting counseling and testing, and treating other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to block [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More from the COGIC</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/03/more-from-the-cogic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a photo my colleague sent me from the Church of God in Christ convention. Some of the convention-goers pose with a NOM employee who was exhibitng at the convention. I know that many of our gay and lesbian readers do not understand why the black community feels so strongly about natural marriage. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church of God in Christ</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/03/church-of-god-in-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/03/church-of-god-in-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ruth Institute Executive Director Jamie Gruber is an exhibitor at this massive conference of African American women, of the Church of God in Christ, held in LA this year. Jamie tells me this crowd of mature African American women recieves our message of lifelong married love with great enthusiasm. It is my understanding that Maggie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faculty: It Takes a Family conference</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/18/faculty-it-takes-a-family-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/18/faculty-it-takes-a-family-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 03:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited about our 2nd annual It Takes a Family Conference, for college students August 12-15 here in Southern Caliornia. We have lined up a distinguished and diverse faculty for this long week-end leadership training experience. Dr. Linda Malone-Colon will be covering the social science aspects of marriage. She is chairwoman of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruth Institute April Marriage Quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/15/ruth-institute-april-marriage-quiz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/15/ruth-institute-april-marriage-quiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Question: What percentage of African American adults (aged 20-54) were married in 1970 and in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available? African Americans have always had the perception that “marriage is for white people,” and nothing much has changed that. Only 50% of adults were married in 1970, and 40% are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race and Abortion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/race-and-abortion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/11/race-and-abortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Race and Abortion: a series of billboards in the Atlanta area call attention to the connection between abortion and race. I talk about those billboards in this interview on Issues Etc, on Lutheran Public Radio.]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Rights and The Sexual Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/civil-rights-and-the-sexual-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/civil-rights-and-the-sexual-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently asked a black pastor friend of mine to consider this hypothetical question: Where do you think the black community would be today, if the Sexual Revolution had not happened at the same time as the Civil Rights movement of the 1960&#8242;s? Think about it: a functioning African American family, black men inside the [...]]]></description>
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