Bush's Failing??

I saw a run-down today of Bush's problems, and they are many, but one I am having a hard time with. I can see the immigration failure, the spending excesses, the idiotic nomination of Harriet Meirs, the imposition of the Davis-Bacon act in reconstruction of the hurricane damage, and others, but I am really not sure he deserves credit or blame for the out-of-wedlock births which are being laid at the feet of the Bush administration. Example of the problem is given below.

A record number of babies — nearly 1.5 million — were born to unmarried women in the U.S. last year. And those moms were more likely to be 20-somethings than teenagers, according to new federal data released Friday.

"This is not a teenage issue," says Stephanie Ventura,. a demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics. "Women in their 20s are accounting for a huge percentage of these births."

The data show that 35.7% of all births were to unmarried women. Births last year to both married and unwed mothers totalled more than 4 million.

By age group, almost 55% of the births for mothers ages 20-24 were to unmarried women. For those between 25-29, almost 28% of the births were to single women.