Quote from Eight:
I saw some research on mating customs in one particular area of Africa. The young people went out into the bush at night and often they had sex. I'm guessing that the better looking males had sex with a lot of young women. If pregnancy occurred the guys had to pay the girls families but there was no stigma, seemingly. When they got a little older they would settle down and marry. It seems like the same idea fits into the modern ghetto/welfare thingy.
That's completely idiotic. African customs and culture were cut off by slavery. Although this guy is extreme with 22 kids, the kind of dereliction you see among some African American men and women - i.e. having children with different partners, not marrying - is rooted strictly in southern white cracker culture. Read Thomas Sowell's
great essay on the roots of a certain strain of black American culture in his book: Black Rednecks and White Liberals.