[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 82 (Friday, June 24, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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               ILLEGITIMACY: AN UNPRECEDENTED CATASTROPHE

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                               speech of

                         HON. ROMANO L. MAZZOLI

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 23, 1994

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, Illegitimacy: An Unprecedented Catastrophe.
  ``Illegitimacy--An Unprecedented Catastrophe.'' That was the headline 
of a column in yesterday's Washington Post written by David Broder. In 
the article Mr. Broder includes some interesting statistics. From 1940 
to 1956, the national rate of illegitimacy stayed flat at about 4 
percent. Starting in 1956, it went up, and since 1970 every year it has 
been worse than the year before.
  Currently the national rate of illegitimacy is 30 percent, and is 
figured to be at least 50 percent by the turn of the century. In some 
parts of America, it is already exceeding 70 percent. This is 
catastrophic, according to Mr. Broder and to Senator Moynihan, who has 
studied demographics for a long time.
  There is even a new term called speciation, which describes the 
impending creation of a different breed of human being, one born and 
raised outside the mother-father relationship.
  Illegitimacy is catastrophic as to cost, Mr. Speaker, catastrophic as 
to human cost and financial cost. While the welfare reform bill has 
some pregnancy prevention measures it it, and they would be welcome, 
until this Nation returns to values, to commonly shared values, 
commonly shared principles, I think we will continue to have a 
deepening, not a lessening, of this national catastrophe.

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