Why did we fail to identify dad deprivation as a crisis in the white community in 1965? Perhaps it was because in 1965 the percentage of white children born outside marriage was only 3.1 percent.21 The 36 percent rate today represents a nearly twelvefold increase.22 Among non-college-educated white women under thirty who have children without marrying, the current 51 percent figure23 is double what it was among blacks when the Moynihan Report alerted us to the crisis.
