the Na- tional Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) found that low birth weight has a much lower correlation with poverty than with heavy smoking pregnant women. Ba- bies born to mothers who smoked 15 or more cigarettes a day had an incidence of low birth weight three times greater than those born to nonsmokers.
Bearing a child out of wedlock is an- other symptom of irresponsibility, Eber- stadt notes, and it too significantly reduces an American child's chances of survival. A college-educated woman...