Educated Women Getting Dumber

Yesterday I read in the Wall Street Journal about a woman named Jennifer Cruz, a Manhattan special education teacher with a master's degree so we can assume she's fairly bright, who was not in a relationship at the age of 29 yet wanted a child. So naturally, this being Crazy Times, Jen went to a sperm bank and got herself impregnated and nine months later had a baby. So what if the kid's father was a test tube -- she was a mother!

A few years later Jen married a real live man and is now 36 and pregnant again. Happy days? But no --  that marriage is now ending. So by the age of 37 this unwed mother will have two children: one with no father at all and the other with an absentee father who hopefully will visit periodically and fork over some child support.

The headline of the article is, "Educated Women Having More Babies Outside of Marriage." Its seminal point is that according to a study by a Johns Hopkins University sociologist, the sharpest rise in fatherless families is now among women holding a bachelor's degree or more. I don't even want to think about what uneducated women are doing.