Charles Murray writes in his essay "The Coming White Underclass" about the increasing population of illegitimacy of the white social class. Murray insists that illegitimacy is the largest problem in society with out any exceptions. Murray examines many possibilities for the rise in pregnancies such as ethics, social justifications and social engineering. He uses cold hard facts to start off the essay but as they fall apart so does his essay. Murray's essay hits a mid way point and becomes merely opinion, and his opinions are controversial in my eyes. I plan to refute his ideas of solving illegitimacy and show that not only are they unethical but unacceptable in the social and government aspects of life.
             "To have a baby that you cannot care for yourself is profoundly irresponsible, and the government will no longer subsidize it."(Murray84)This summarizes the main point and opinion of Charles Murray's essay. Murray's opinions seem to conflict with what is being done and what should be done. Murray's opinions express economic setbacks, and family ethics such as if you can not find a job then how are you going to teach your child responsibilities if you don't have the responsibilities to find a job. He enlightens the readers on how he plans on fixing the problem of illegitimacies.
             "Restoring economic penalties translates into the first and central policy prescription: to end all economic support for single mothers"(84).Murray's idea of cutting off the single mother from economic support from the government in my opinion is ridiculous. Murray should look into how much the government spends on other countries and their homeless before he nominates illegitimate children to be sacrificed. Charles Murray might want to suggest that the government takes a look at they are spending on other countries and tell the officials that they should try spending some if not all of ...