What is most disturbing about this article is how it seems to put most of the responsibility on the woman, while barely mentioning the roles and responsibilities of men. Why are most of the statistics given on unmarried mothers and not the reverse?

It seems as if part of the problem is that men see that leaving AND not raising thier children is even an option!!! Imagine if women made that choice! Having a child, but just one day deciding I'm not going to have any part in raising it. Were masses of women to do that, that would be seen as a serious problem, a state of lunacy, a crisis situation. Were women to decide in droves that they were just going to leave thier children to be raised solely by the fathers, there would be an uproar. Something would be done to fix that. Education would start young. Policy would be implemented.

So why no uproar when a man "chooses" to walk away? How can he even have the right to make that choice! SHE didn't get pregnant by herself!

My point is this...marriage is very important! Commitment is very important! Education about HOW to be in a committed relationship is also very important, yet lacking! Everyone needs to be held accountable, not just the women.

And to the women out there. Be wise in your choices. Marry first or else leave his a@* alone. And if you have a man in his life, with children from previous relationships, and he's not caring for them, leave his a@* alone! To the men, please stop fearing marriage. Commitment is not the end of the world, its really the beginning.