[Mercat]

It was probably almost 20 years ago that I got a call from a black man who was almost in tears. He and his wife had I think 4 kids and his wife had told him that she had gone to the welfare people who had told her that she would have X amount of money in the household if she divorced her husband. It was more than he was bringing home so she was going to kick him out. I was shocked. That’s the cause of the breakdown. My SIL is a retired lactation specialist and she told me years ago that the single moms would come in to deliver their babies and calculate to the penny how much money and other perks that they would get if they went out and got pregnant again. No mention of fathers.

[Uncle Miltie]

Moynihan issued his research under the title The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, now commonly known as The Moynihan Report. Moynihan’s report[4] fueled a debate over the proper course for government to take with regard to the economic underclass, especially blacks. Critics on the left attacked it as “blaming the victim”,[5] a slogan coined by psychologist William Ryan.[6] Some suggested that Moynihan was propagating the views of racists[7] because much of the press coverage of the report focused on the discussion of children being born out of wedlock. Despite Moynihan’s warnings, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program included rules for payments only if the “Man [was] out of the house.”[citation needed] Critics said that the nation was paying poor women to throw their husbands out of the house. Moynihan supported Richard Nixon’s idea of a Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI). Daniel Patrick Moynihan had significant discussions concerning a Basic Income Guarantee with Russell B. Long and Louis O. Kelso.

After the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress, Moynihan agreed that correction was needed for a welfare system that possibly encouraged women to raise their children without fathers: “The Republicans are saying we have a helluva problem, and we do.”[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan

[brivette]

money changes everything...

[GOPJ]

Another way liberals broke the back of black fathers was with money for birthing. A pregnant black unmarried teen would be encouraged NOT to marry the father of her child until AFTER the birth because the State would pay for the birth only if she was unmarried. Usually the young people made the decision to wait to save money... but reality being what it is... often the 'father' lost interest by the time the child was born.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That’s what you call a perverse incentive. We thought they had learned better than this way back with the opening follies of the Great Society. I guess they hadn’t.

[DungeonMaster]

It was probably almost 20 years ago that I got a call from a black man who was almost in tears. He and his wife had I think 4 kids and his wife had told him that she had gone to the welfare people who had told her that she would have X amount of money in the household if she divorced her husband.

You're kidding!!!!

[ridesthemiles]

Take a large dose of ant-acid tablets and then sit down & watch The Maury Show for a week.

It will make you sick if you don’t use the ant-acids first.

[arthurus]

All that is a deliberate calculated result of the War on Poverty. LBJ knew what he was bringing on.