Thirty years ago one of 40 white births was out of wedlock; now it’s one in 5. Thirty years ago, one in five African-American births was out of wedlock; now, over half. But the white out-of-wedlock birthrate is growing much faster than the African-American rate. So, we are going to have equal opportunity for all before you know it. [Laughter]

You’re laughing to keep from crying, but it’s not funny, is it? We’re going to see a merger of this. No more race discrimination; more than half of everybody’s babies will be born where there was never a marriage. That is a disaster. It is wrong, and someone has to say, again, ‘‘It is simply not right. You shouldn’t have a baby before you’re ready, and you shouldn’t have a baby when you’re not married. You just have to stop it.’’ We’ve got to turn it around.

Now I want to make it clear we shouldn’t stigmatize these babies, and when they’re born, we should take care of them. We ought to love the babies. We ought to love the parents. We ought to give them the best future we can, but we have to tell people, look at the facts. Look at what happens to people. Look at their incomes, their education levels, their future. We’ve got to get people out of thinking that the future is 5 minutes away and to realize it is 5 years or 10 years or 20 years away. And you have to do that. I’ll try to do my part, but this is not a Government deal. This is the way people are behaving, as if there was no respect for themselves and no future. We have to stop.