Having a married mother and father is a racist micro-aggression.
Posted on 07/10/2016 11:56:48 AM PDT by artichokegrower
African American children die at more than twice the rate of other children in Sacramento County
More than a third of those deaths occur in womb or first weeks of life
County has launched a $26 million effort to attack problem at neighborhood level
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
5 children with a father who has been in and out of prison for most of his life. You have no education, no career, no skills, have 5 children and cry about being in poverty.
Don’t worry the government has removed at least the monetary consequences of poor life decisions.
When I used to live near Harlem on the Upper East Side in the 80s, school children on the bus in the morning had Coke for breakfast and other sugary substances. It was so depressing to see. How can children learn when their brains aren’t even allowed to develop?
Lived there for 11 years and never saw such a relatively small city/county with so many bad areas—Del Paso Heights, Rio Linda of Rush fame, the “south area” (Florin Road and Stockton Blvd), Meadowview, just to name a few. Moved to Carmichael to escape the problems of these places.
Can’t write now, marking this for later.
“...it cited four primary causes: perinatal conditions, including low birth weight, congenital infections and premature birth; infant sleep-related incidents, including sudden infant death syndrome; death from child abuse and neglect committed by parents or other caregivers; and violence...”
Pretty much all preventable and nearly all due to behavior, so not surprised.
The anecdotal evidence given for the alarming rate of miscarriages and fetal demise were all about the same as my personal rate of miscarriage and fetal demise. I have a college degree, have been married for 17 years, and am not living in poverty. The one common factor is that we have all had many pregnancies.
I believe children are a blessing (for MARRIED couples) and therefore was never sterilized or on the pill. Keep getting pregnant and there will be more losses.
And don’t forget: the boyfriend syndrome.
Stupid people consistently and repeatedly making stupid decisions. Now the government sends a guy with a gun to take our money to subsidize their stupidity, and we allow it.
Our stupidity, and possibly the fatal stupidity for our society.
They will never understand that it is a CULTURE problem, not race. Huge difference in solutions. What’s sad is socialism, freebies fir nothing, becomes part of the culture.
I suspect babies born into families with a large number of children would die in infancy at a statistically higher rate, due to mothers being spread thin as far as the level of attention given to any one child. Pair that with a mother who is ill-equipped to start with, to actually be a mother for various reasons, and that rate increases.
But children can’t die in the womb. Abortion activists say it’s settled science.
I suspect babies born into families with a large number of children would die in infancy at a statistically higher rate, due to mothers being spread thin as far as the level of attention gien to any one child”
I had my kids when families were very large-—I had five and it was considered a small family in my neighborhood.
NONE of the kids in that area died,not one. Stable families were a big factor.
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I would like to see the child mortality statistics for married couples vs single mothers. I’d bet the difference is striking, among all ethnicities.
Individual experience versus statistical probability often doesn’t appear to match, but it’s still valid across the larger population.
Having a married mother and father is a racist micro-aggression.
That falls under: death from child abuse and neglect committed by parents or other caregivers.
They’re just going to throw more money at them so they increase these problems.
Jewish life in the shtetls was entailed unbelievable hardship. But because of the Jewish religious tradition of tzedakah (charity), a sophisticated system of volunteer Jewish social welfare organizations developed to meet the needs of the population. Plus there was a big emphasis on stable married life, and close-knit extended families.
Volunteer Jewish organizations ran schools, built up lieracy, supplied clothes to poor students, provided kosher food to Jewish soldiers conscripted into the Tsar's army, dispensed free medical treatment for the poor, offered dowries and household gifts to destitute brides, and arranged for job-training for orphans.
Their population grew, 2 million of them emigrated (mostly to the USA) and yet in the Pale their numbers kept increasing. So paradoxically they "prospered" even despite poverty and constant oppression.
The fundamental, underlying problem with out suffering minority populations in the USA is not "the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow," it's not poverty, it's not racism. It's the breakdown of faith and family, a "church culture" and a "marriage culture."
Of course, that's not just Black people, it's affecting everyone, of every race.
No amount of money will help if your underlying culture has disintegrated.
We had five also....four out of college and youngest to be a sophomore (he’s 19), but oldest was born in 83 and in our neighborhood we were the big family. And an oddity in terms as most had one or two.
I am an only child, so I was an oddity back in the late 60s. But I grew up in a neighborhood (mixed races, whites were Italian or Irish Catholic w/an AME church—that had been a synagogue—around the corner). I don’t recall any loss of children (except the vigils/funerals for two young men (older brothers who died in VietNam.)
We all had two parents families w/widowed Bubbas, Nanas, etc living in three generation families). There were home cooked meals; you brought food to a family whose mom had a new baby. We had medical care. A pharmacy. All in a steel mill blue collar community.
Non of that exists today.
A baby is born, and I’m pretty sure keeping the next nail appt is still a priority.
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