Guilty (45 page)

31
Chuck Eddy, “The Daddy Shady Show,”
Village Voice,
December 31, 2002.

32
In 1990, there were a total of 34,670 parents with children under eighteen years old. Of those, 24,570 were married, compared with 8,779 who were unmarried, most of whom—86 percent—were single mothers. U.S. Census, Table FM-2. All Parent/Child Situations, by Type, Race, and Hispanic Origin of Householder or Reference Person: 1970 to Present (2003). Available at:
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/tabFM-2.pdf
.

33
Steve Schifferes, “Is the UK a Model Welfare?” BBC News, August 4, 2005. Available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4704081.stm
.

34
Martin Newland, “Why England Is Rotting,”
Maclean's,
June 11, 2007.

35
Isabel V. Sawhill, Statement to the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Hearing, June 29, 1999. Available at:
http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/1999/0629poverty_sawhill.aspx?p=1
.

36
David Popenoe, “The Future of Marriage in America,” Rutgers University, The National Marriage Project, 2007. Available at:
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2007.htm
(quoted in Emily Yoffe “… And Baby Makes Two,”
Slate
magazine, March 20, 2008).

37
Popenoe, “The Future of Marriage in America;” “The Frayed Knot—Marriage in America,”
The Economist,
May 26, 2007.

38
Colson,
How Shall We Live.

39
Barry H. Waldman and Steven P. Perlman, “Homeless Children with Disabilities,”
The Exceptional Parent,
June 1, 2008 (American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry: Developmental Medicine and Dentistry Reviews & Reports).

40
DeParle, “Raising Kevion.”

41
Sawhill, Statement to the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources Hearing.

42
DeParle, “Raising Kevion.”

43
Theodore Dalrymple, “The Knife Went In,”
City Journal,
Autumn 1994.

44
Theodore Dalrymple, “Tough Love,”
City Journal,
Winter 1999.

45
Celia W Dugger, “On the Edge of Survival: Single Mothers on Welfare,”
New York Times,
July 6, 1992.

46
Ibid.

47
Editorial: “Dan Quayle's Fictitious World,”
New York Times,
May 22, 1992.

48
“The Frayed Knot.”

49
“Waiting for What?,”
In These Times,
July 2006.

50
Kathleen Kingsbury, “Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High,”
Time,
June 18, 2008. The mayor later tried to deny the story, but that just led to the
Time
reporter going on TV and attesting to her many sources that there was indeed a “pact.” See “So-Called Pregnancy Pact in Gloucester Being Questioned,”
The Today Show,
NBC News, June 24, 2008.

51
“The Frayed Knot.”

52
See, e.g., House Ways and Means Committee, Nonmarital Births to Adults and Teenagers and Federal Strategies to Reduce Nonmarital Pregnancies, Appendix M. Available at:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/greenbook2003/ AppendixM.pdf
.

53
Patrick F. Fagan and William H. G. Fitzgerald, “Why Serious Welfare Reform Must Include Serious Adoption Reform,”
Heritage Foundation Reports,
July 27, 1995. See also Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information
Gateway Voluntary Relinquishment for Adoption Numbers and Trends, 2005. Available at:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_place.cfm
(“Less than 1 percent of children born to never-married women were placed for adoption from 1989 to 1995”).

54
Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway Voluntary Relinquishment for Adoption Numbers and Trends, 2005. Available at:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_place.cfm
.

55
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway Voluntary Relinquishment for Adoption Numbers and Trends, 2005. Available at:
http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/s_place.cfm
.

56
Cheryl Wetzstein, “Verdict on Teens Adopted at Birth: The Kids Are Alright,”
Insight on the News,
August 8, 1994.

57
Tamar Lewin, “Adopted Youths Are Normal in Self-Esteem, Study Finds,”
New York Times,
June 23, 1994.

58
Ibid.

59
Rebbetzin Faige, “New Study Identifies Strengths of Adoptive Famlies,” Foundation for Large Families (Study by Peter L. Benson, Anu R. Sharma, and Eugene C. Roehlkepartain). Available at:
http://www.foundationforlargefamilies.com/strengthstudy.html
.

60
Lewin, “Adopted Youths Are Normal in Self-Esteem.”

61
Jeff Katz, “Finally the Law Puts These Kids' Interests First,”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
December 28, 1997.

62
See, e.g., Stephanie Cox Wright, “All of God's Children Are Wonderful Creations, Neither Unwanted nor Disposable,”
Asheville Citizen-Times,
October 1, 2004.

63
Andrew Hacker, “ ‘In Trouble' in Black and White,”
New York Times,
March 29, 1992 (reviewing Rickie Solinger,
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
[1992]).

64
Bernard Weinraub, “The Talk of Hollywood: After Months of Political Attack, the ‘Cultural Elite' Fires Back,”
New York Times,
September 1, 1992.

65
Editorial: “Dan Quayle's Fictitious World.”

66
Henry David Rosso, “Angry Exchange over Family Values Between Jackson and Robertson,” United Press International, June 11, 1992.

67
Text of speech delivered at the Democratic National Convention by Jesse Jackson,
Associated Press,
July 14, 1992.

68
David Reinhard, “No Room at Democratic Inn for Unborn,”
The Oregonian
(Portland), July 21, 1992.

69
Editorial: “The Democrats' Conscience,”
Boston Globe,
July 16, 1992.

70
Bryant Gumbel, interview with Hadassah Lieberman,
The Early Show,
CBS, August 16, 2000.

71
Bryant Gumbel, interview with Whoopi Goldberg,
The Early Show,
CBS, August 17, 2000.

72
L. Brent Bozell III, “Nobody Runs Against Hollywood,” Creators Syndicate, November 2, 2006.

73
Patty Onderko, “Married vs. Single Moms: Who's Got the Better Deal?,”
Babytalk,
September 2007.

74
President Bush Delivers Commencement Address at Miami Dade College, Miami Dade College—Kendall Campus, Miami, Florida, Office of the White House Press Secretary, April 28, 2007.

75
Timothy Malcolm, “Sen. Kerry Draws 5,000 at Boston Rally,”
Daily Free Press,
September 4, 2003.

76
Dick Feagler, “Political Embarrassment Comes from Ignoring Reality,”
Plain Dealer
(Cleveland), August 19, 1994.

77
Bill Walsh and Joe Darby, “Mom Arrested After Clinton Visit,”
Times-Picayune
(New Orleans), August 17, 1994.

78
Editorial: “Crime Bill Tragedies—and Follies …,”
Washington Times,
August 18, 1994.

79
Renaldo Smith, “ ‘Phenomenal' Tribute Paid to Mothers,”
Miami Herald,
April 10, 2008.

80
David D. Kirkpatrick, “Bush Allies Till Fertile Soil, Among Baptists,”
New York Times,
June 18, 2004.

81
Terry Gross, “David Cay Johnston of the
New York Times
Discusses Taxes,”
Fresh Air,
NPR, January 7, 2004.

82
Cheryl Meyer, Michelle Oberman, Kelly White, and Michelle Rone,
Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the “Prom Mom”
(New York: NYU Press, 2001), p. 106.

83
Palm Beach Post
(Florida), January 19, 2001; Anna Maria Della Costa, “Death Penalty Sought for Mother, Boyfriend,”
Jupiter Courier
(Jupiter, FL), December 24, 2000.

84
Kevin McDermott, “Outrage, Relief After Verdict in Drowning of 3 Guilty? Yes. Murder? No.,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
(Missouri), December 13, 2006.

85
Gabriel Margasak, “Mother Says ‘Spirit' Tricked Her to Kill Baby,”
Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News
(Stuart, FL), September 16, 2001; Pat Moore, “Judge: Mom Who Killed Son Was Insane, Found Not Guilty,”
Palm Beach Post
(Florida), February 6, 2003.

86
“Colorado Woman Gets 32 Years in Fire Deaths of Children,” Associated Press, January 14, 1999; Mike Patty, “Mom Pleads Guilty in Kids' Deaths,”
Rocky Mountain News
(Denver, CO), December 3, 1998.

87
“Mother Convicted in Deaths of Two Toddlers Denied Parole,” Associated Press, October 22, 1999; “Jail for Mother Who Let Sons Die in Car,”
Advertiser,
November 11, 1995.

88
Wendy Hollway,
Mothering and Ambivalence
(Routledge, 1997), p. 115.

89
Barbara Barnett,
Medea in the Media: Narrative and Myth in Newspaper Coverage of Women Who Kill Their Children
(SAGE Publications, 2006).

90
CP-SouthamStar, “Autistic Son Dies, Mother Charged,”
Toronto Star,
November 8, 1996.

91
“Waiting for What?,”
In These Times,
July 2006.

92
“NWSA Looks at Resistance to Empire,”
Off Our Backs,
April 2006.

93
Amy Harmon, “First Comes the Baby Carriage,”
New York Times,
October 13, 2005.

94
Patty Onderko, “Married vs. Single Moms: Who's Got the Better Deal?,”
Babytalk,
September 2007.

95
Harmon, “First Comes the Baby Carriage.”

96
Ibid.

97
Ibid.

98
Ibid.

99
Lisa Rosen, “Dating in a Family Way,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 7, 2002.

100
Ibid.

101
“And Baby Makes Two,”
Marie Claire,
March 1, 2008.

102
Hacker, “ ‘In Trouble' in Black and White.”

103
Harmon, “First Comes the Baby Carriage.”

104
Ibid.

105
U.S. Census, Table FM-2. All Parent/Child Situations, by Type, Race, and Hispanic Origin of Householder or Reference Person: 1970 to Present (2003). Available at:
http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/tabFM-2.pdf
.

106
Bonnie Angelo, “The Pain of Being Black: Interview with Toni Morrison,”
Time,
May 22, 1989. Available at:
http://www.time.com/time/community/pulitzerinter-view.html
.

107
Peter Schweizer,
Makers and Takers
(New York: Doubleday, 2008), p. 37. Steinem fish quote in feminist anthologies everywhere.

108
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Oh, Those Family Values,”
Time,
July 18, 1994.

109
Ibid.

110
Ibid.

111
Ibid.

112
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S.,
Victims, Nonfatal Intimate Partner Victimization Rate Per 1,000 Females by Marital Status, 1993–2005.

113
Ehrenreich, “Oh, Those Family Values.”

114
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S.

115
Ehrenreich, “Oh, Those Family Values.”

116
Barbara Ehrenreich, “In Defense of Splitting Up,”
Time,
April 8, 1996.

117
Irving Kristol,
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
(New York: Free Press 1995).

118
Maggie Gallagher, “No Stigmas for People Like Us,”
Newsday
(New York), June 7, 1994.

119
G. K. Chesterton, “A Defense of Humilities,”
The Defendant,
1901.

120
Kristol,
Neoconservatism.

121
Fred Siegel,
The Future Once Happened Here
(New York: Encounter Books, 1997).

122
Felicity Barringer, “Hillary Clinton: From Lawyer to Mother; Now, Both of the Above,”
New York Times,
October 30, 1992.

123
Susan Chira, “Conversations/Patrick T. Murphy: A Defender of Chicago's Children Refuses to Be Polite About Abuse,”
New York Times,
January 30, 1994.

124
Cynthia Tucker, “Solomon and Modern Adoption,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
May 15, 1995.

125
Michael Sneed, “Boy's Parents Bring More Discomfort,”
Omaha World Herald,
August 6, 1997.

126
Moriarty v. Greene,
Nos. 1-99-0277 and 1-99-0409, Consolidated, 1st District, June 28, 2000.

127
G. K. Chesterton,
Daily News,
July 29, 1905.

128
Stephanie Coontz, “Illegitimate Complaints,”
New York Times,
February 18, 2007 (discussing the sordid business of three “unsavory men who partied with her mother” fighting over the right to custody of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter).

129
Out-of-wedlock births “decline as women's IQ increases.” See Robert Gordon, “Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test,”
Intelligence,
January 1, 1997 (citing Herrnstein and Murray,
The Bell Curve
[1994], p. 183).