Back in 1965, 25% of black children were born out of wedlock, nearly one-third fewer.
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Black children surveyed, on average, spent an extra 10 hours watching TV each week.
She believes that seeing success is imperative, because black children need role models who look like them.
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In addition, by 2000 the poverty rate of black children was the lowest it had ever been.
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Statistics show that black children are more than twice as likely to drown than their white peers.
Among ten-year-old black children 41% fail their basic reading tests, and so do 38% of the Latino pupils.
Consequently, black children also have a far higher high school dropout rate and a lower rate of college enrollment.
And most black children came from poor, ill-educated families where English, the main language of instruction, was not their mother tongue.
In 1991, 15% of black children, 12% of Hispanic children and 5% of white kids lived with at least one grandparent.
Today, 72% of black children are born out of wedlock, as are 53 % of Hispanic children and 36% of white children.
In the U.S., the number of whites adopting black children is growing.
That means taking actions such as reducing the high rate of black children born to unmarried parents and placing more value on education, he says.
Only one in six black children is reared by both parents.
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The proportion of black children living with married parents is increasing.
The poverty rate for blacks fell to its lowest rate ever in 1998, though one in four black households (and nearly 40% of black children) are still poor.
In addition, she says black children are too often overlooked.
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Child labourers in the Philippines, low-income black children in the US and low-caste girls in India all suffer very different educational problems which call for adapted solutions and policies.
Hispanic children had lower rates of disabilities than white or black children, which perhaps reflects language difficulties and other barriers to accessing health services rather than the true rate of disability.
The dissolution of the black family, in part because of welfare, has forced several generations of black children to be reared in fatherless homes, which is a prescription for troubles later in life.
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The university operates four charters for (mostly) poor black children up to ninth grade (14-15), and college-acceptance rates for children going through them have been above 98% in each of the past three years.
It is a different story among black Africans, where children born to two black parents are three and a half times as numerous as children with one white parent.
While more black women have children outside of marriage, white women are the fastest growing demographic.
It seems to show a flat-to-rising trend since 1971, with black and Hispanic children registering the most improvement.
For black and Hispanic children, a Pew study found that not being able to go to college will keep them poor.
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The survey, the most extensive on the health of ethnic minorities, looked at the health of 6, 800 adults and 3, 400 children from Black Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Irish communities.
Former slaves began forming the privately owned college, then the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, before the turn of the 20th century to offer a place for the children of black farmers to go to school.
Merritt is a tall woman in a long black coat and a dressy black hat, and her children are seen only as pink knit caps at about elbow height.
Moreover, the findings are echoed by a second study released today, which was conducted in New York City and followed 265 black and Dominican mothers and children from low-income families.
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