Thanks for this, Musky (updoot).

I've read the report because I wanted to know of this author's sources. The essay doesn't include references next to the statistics. It would fail as an undergraduate essay because footnotes are essential, especially for this kind of study of statistics, as an author supposedly with a B.S. and a J.M. would know very well. Omitting the sources for those statistics is intentional if the author actually has those degrees.

You can find the essay at Research Gate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315367933_Ninety_Two_Percent_Examining_the_Birth_Trends_Family_Structure_Economic_Standing_Paternal_Relationships_and_Emotional_Stability_of_Biracial_Children_with_African_American_Fathers

And when you look for where it was published: https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/

This is a non-academic self-publishing source that re-publishes anything without peer review. There is a mix of all kinds of articles here, many of which seem to be academic, but are not. For example there is a batch of Anti-Vax misinformation papers (also lacking appropriate references). Many of those are identified as "working papers," which are not published in peer-reviewed resources, though may have been proposed to peer-reviewed journals. The purpose of that website: "SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks."

EDIT SSRN removed it from their database (hence it was harder for you to find): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893

EDIT DEBUNKED: This Academic [sic] Paper on Biracial Children with African-American Fathers is Likely a Fabrication - The paper has been downloaded nearly 7,000 times. https://abegaustad.medium.com/this-academic-paper-on-biracial-children-with-african-american-fathers-is-likely-a-fabrication-b26d900e96b4 "Given the plagiarism discovered in this paper, the questionable study design and statistical anomalies, and the paper’s direct and rapid spread to internet forums specializing in hate speech, it is extremely likely that this paper was fabricated in order to be used as propaganda against African-Americans in general and interracial relationships in particular. Slipshod research methodology, unethical research methods and a hoax perpetrated for monetary gain — or some combination thereof — cannot be ruled out entirely."

And these Twitter comments have been removed from Twitter:

Slattttt on Twitter: "It was essentially a fake study created by a ... 24 May 2023 · It was essentially a fake study created by a black woman named Tiffany Calloway. She has no credentials and she made up all of the data. Hoe she was able to get …

Slattttt on Twitter: "Yall are still posting this fake study? It has ... Yall are still posting this fake study? It has already been debunked by multiple peope and the social science research network (SSRN) even removed it from their database

Ms Calloway's paper is quite popular among those who want to believe her unreferenced statistics:

https://www.scribd.com/document/312664854/Ninety-Two-Percent

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/92-of-mixed-kids-of-african-american-fathers-born-out-of-wedlock.96185/

https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1110167/ [White Supremacy]

https://vetoron-forte.livejournal.com/2217.html

https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3244547/pg1

https://www.beyondblackwhite.com/so-whos-fault-is-it-92-of-biracial-children-born-to-black-fathers-out-of-wedlock-82-on-welfare/

And much more... search:

tiffany calloway ninety two percent

tiffany calloway blacks

And who is this Tiffany Calloway? I can't find her.

Regarding black children born out of wedlock, if I may change the topic slightly, one can search for that statistic and find that 72 percent black childen are born out of wedlock, which of course is shocking. Search: black childen born out of wedlock

TL/DR:

Calloway (if that's a real person) provides no sources for her statistics, has used unethical research methods, writing a hoax perpetrated for monetary gain.

What's really worrying is that numerous people want to use that false claim as a way of arguing that 9 out of 10 black men abandon their mixed-race children (per the conclusion in her article).

The facts are still quite concerning: "In 2011, 72% of black babies were born to unmarried mothers, while the 2018 National Vital Statistics Report provides a figure of 69.4 percent for this condition."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure

"In 1992, 94% of African-American segmented nuclear families were composed of an unmarried mother and children."

/u/ActuallyNot