By Emmy Griffin, Patriot Post - It feeds the beast of the government nanny state and shackles the most vulnerable to a cycle of poverty... A new statistic on motherhood was recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There were 3,613,647 births registered in the United States in 2020,” reports CNS News’s Terence Jeffrey, who sadly adds that “1,464,121 of these — or 40.5 percent — were to unmarried mothers.”