Intelligence is not very flexible to changes in environments. That is why blacks of affluent parents still tend to get lower SAT scores than whites of poor families.Hector living in mortal fear that someone else might be enjoying himself.
It's not just black people who saw an increase in out of wedlock births... White people saw an increase as well.
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Why? The main reason is that knocking a woman up is no longer seen as an obligation to marry her. She could have used birth control and she could have had an abortion.
Changes in behavior are effected by changes in customs. When crime rates and illegitimacy rates are low whites and East Asians have lower rates than Negroes. When crime rates are high, whites and East Asians still have lower rates than Negroes
Your reasoning would only make sense if unmarried women and their illegitimate children were denied welfare benefits, as I wish they were.
When most Negroes viewed illegitimacy as a social problem and a personal tragedy, black illegitimacy happened less often.
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