First off, your stat interpretation is wrong. It’s not 77% fatherless families, it’s 77% births by unmarried women. This includes any woman who has a child with her boyfriend, even if they get married soon after. It also includes women who get married to someone who isn’t the father after the birth.

But on the topic of fatherless families: there are many reasons a child may live without a father other than unprotected sex. The mother may have left an unhealthy relationship, or the father might be incarcerated. The mother might have purposefully chosen to raise a child on her own. She also might have help from extended family or friends raising the child, just because the father is absent doesn’t mean the mother was abandoned. You’re jumping to conclusions pretty severely.

I honestly can’t believe you brought up WAP, and for me this signifies a rather racist undercurrent in your argument. WAP is pretty obviously a gag song. A great one, but still a gag. Cardi and Megan are exaggerating their sexuality to an extreme degree for comic effect. They don’t literally want men to bring a bucket and a mop, that’s a joke. The song is supposed to be so absurd and unreal that it becomes funny. Yet somehow you interpreted this as indicative of Black women trying to appease gang culture? I really don’t think that’s right.

As for “use protection”, it’s really not that simple. If you’re taught that all sex is scandalous and shameful, you’re not going to see a meaningful difference between protected and unprotected sex. This is why abstinence-only education is harmful. A lot of people still believe the pull-out method works because if you aren’t taught the specifics of contraception you’re going to think that condoms are only useful because they stop ejaculation and therefore not ejaculating inside someone will be just as effective.

As for the differences in “the Black community” that you point out (reminder that the US doesn’t have “the Black community”, it has countless different Black communities spanning all geographic regions and identities) what you’re seeing is the effects of concentrated poverty. Due to the legacy of structural racism, the majority of Black people live in deep, unbreakable poverty. An expectant mother living in poverty will be more likely to have an abortion as she can’t in good faith try to support a child.

This is a common fallacy I see on here. Someone links “Black people are X% more likely to do Y behavior”, neglects that the Y behavior trends along poverty lines as well, and assumes that it’s something endemic to Black people as a “culture”.