>> I don't have a clue as to why certain women choose to have children out of wedlock with men who will almost certainly not stay around.

Choose? If you begin at the Moynahan Report over half a century ago, you can see that he correctly identified self-destructive patterns from ghettoization and father absence, partly based on observations in historic Irish slums. But instead of an intellectual response there followed a cycle of virtue signaling disastrous public policy and housing decisions that led to exactly what Moynahan warned against. Amidst all the accusations and posturing, a psychologist surnamed (I'm ashamed to say) Ryan famously accused Moynahan of "victim blaming," which slur proved more enduring than Moynahan's dry intellectual themes, so that Moynahan was quickly white anted away while the slur is used to this day to shut down uncomfortable topics.

>>it's a bit arrogant to conclude that that behavior is some kind of social pathology because it's different from ours,

Yes but nobody attempted that straw man except you. Lets play a game: lets pretend that I may have gone and done some homework- perhaps even an obsessive quantity of homework- before I'm moved to any absolute declaration rather than simply questioning. In this case I am quite sure that Poverty is a massive contributor to a predominantly and shamefully black problem in the US and that the solution is not to feed them for a day or advocate "change the damned system, not the family" which was one of the disastrous responses 50 years ago. If the status quo prevails, the next development is Hispanics with their maintenance of family units following Vietnaamese and other underclasses in surpassing black prosperity by far. What then?