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Patrick Moynihan: “I know he would be aware, he is speaking so well, so feelingly and wisely, that in 1992 the number of children born to…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1995
I know he would be aware, he is speaking so well, so feelingly and wisely, that in 1992 the number of children born to unmarried women was 1,224,876 souls, one and a quarter million children in 1 year.
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Patrick Moynihan
Illinois

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Discussing the issue of children born to unmarried women.

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