Are you experiencing some of the same trends that Black America is experiencing?
In America the Black female is the least likely to marry of all the major demographic groups. In America 70% of Black children are born to single parent homes. While the suit of materialism may make it appear that we are doing well, these 2 trends alone are and will have devastating effects on Black America.

The birth rate from the CDC, the marriage info from various articles such as the NY Times and Essense magazine.

Why? Sound fantastic? Sit in the maternity ward of Washington Hospital center and you would be amazed.

No Brits with a reply??

something seems off about your stats.... I have never heard of the percentage of single parent homes being that high...

Peep this.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/...h04_tables.pdf

CDC 2004

Non Hispanic Black precentage birth to unmarried mothers 69.2%

Unmarried is the new married.

So is the situation better of worse for the British brothers and sisters?

Aiyyo straight bro, the U.K is sh!t and wack compared to most places in the world. the morals in this country is whites own everything followed along quite cutely with the Asians. in the schools black kids are failing, and the cheeky white man turns around and says "look your in school right now, so please show some interest" and at the same time teaching us about the glorious past of the English empire...followed by WW1 & WW2.



You know how the hell is a black kid going to succeed if all we are taught is European history? What about Mali empire, what about black history?? Ooh yeah that’s right the only black history we are taught is slavery!



i'm from African straight up, and i don't like it here in the U.K. the English are rude (by rude i mean they hate you from the inside, and smile on the out side). The blacks are not united and stand together... it’s only when some black kid gets murder by a BNP member...(by the way some blacks voted for the BNP during those local elections) that some reaction is formed.



man life in Britain sucks real bad....the girls are dry they have no game. The guys are weak psychologically from all those years in English schools. Man to me the whole motherf**king system is f*cked up.


when i done with my Beng course i'm outta here for good!

Wow, interesting. My father was the only one who migrated to America, the rest went to London and Canada with the majority of them now living in Canada or someother part of the globe.

So is the single parnethood situation as bad in the UK as it is in America?

wow @ Big L.I think your being a bit harsh 'bout the girls are dry etc! Anyway,I personally believe that althoughthe black familyin the Uk is not in asbad a state as those in the US as your statsshow, weare probably only a decade behind you. However,the families of all races are in decline, you just have to see how farthe general attitude of the kids has deteriated in the last 10 years or so to know how many of them come from broken or unstable homes.

^^ Not true, hes made comments about America as well.

I agree with the schools post... I cuss this country on a constant basis mainly because of the high tax issues (+anything else I can think of) and that includeds everything congestion CHARGING... insurance RATES etc etc England is a tax nation not even sure if a single person can get a decent house on their own without a spouse to share the mortgage rates with. The main thing I can't stand is the weather and colourless streets... london city stinks of piss water literally and the place is a mess unless you're going through Mayfair or Moorgate, Canary Warf etc...

More mixed pickneys coming up now, we've got the highest child birth rate inthe westI'm sure... the US is diffrent cause its a bigger counrty, I think its even north london that holds the crown. Anyway plenty of kiddy cannon fodder, 16 year olds with kids its the new man thing don't ya know. If you can count yourkids and moms on both hands you're just not a man.

England sucks, stay in America or Canada.

Leaving England has been a long time dream of mine but then I look at the work being done by Ligali and ask is leaving the easy way out?

What is the work Ligali is doing??

They stand for ethnic people in court. (Africans and Asians)

Those guys are top, they were at a meeting in south london talking about the use of the word N*gger in rap music and their rep definatly made an impression, they've even phoned into a few radio stations and put the DJs straight from what I hear on BNV... that Nick Ferrari character got a fist where its not supposed to go for chatting aboutus being labelled ''black'' and not African. Things are moving in England most people don't seem intrested but theres gonna be news on here about aBlack community investment Bank soonenough, which should bean African investment bank but then we all seem to get confused.

Its the work ethic in this country that gets to me sometimes, funny hearing the English moan about it and take it like they always do, I think the government takes advantage of the English 'sit back and take it' attitude.

They have siestas in Malta from like 1pm to 4.... Portugal its more 1 - 3 or something... not sure about Spain.


is leaving the easy way out?

Yes.

Jks... what do you think though? What are the benifits of living in the UK in comparision to elsewhere?