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The Breakdown of the Black Family
The Atlantic ^
| Oct 4, 2015
| Kay Hymowitz
Posted on 10/05/2015 8:32:32 AM PDT by TroutStalker
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To: TroutStalker
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.
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:44:04 AM PDT
by
Mercat
(You don't recommend better diet and exercise for a shark bite.)
To: TroutStalker
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:44:34 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
To: Mercat
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
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
To: Uncle Miltie
Getting to the root causes:
And before Barack Jr. started banging, he stopped going to school.
And before Barack Jr. stopped going to school, he was lying to his mother.
And before Barack Jr. was lying to his mother, he had no father in the home.
And before Barack Jr. had no father in the home, the Dhimmicrats started giving Mom money to have kids and no dad.
And before Dhimmicrats started giving Mom money to have kids and no dad, Barack Jr. had a dad, a mom, the truth and an education.
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:50:27 AM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: Mercat
money changes everything...
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:51:10 AM PDT
by
brivette
To: Darteaus94025
oh, and no need for Dhimmicrats.
The party of slavery never quit, they just found another way: use your money!
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:52:10 AM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: TroutStalker
The federal government is the father.
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:52:11 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have stores of food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has))
To: Mercat
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.
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:55:48 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dems want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
To: TroutStalker
The high incarceration rate is a symptom, not a cause, of the breakdown of the black community.
Letting more people out of jail will not improve life for the blacks either, it's not like the ex-cons are suddenly going to turn into providers.
Some may, most of them won't.
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posted on
10/05/2015 8:58:43 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: TroutStalker
If you only read four words of this entire article; read these...
blacks commit more crimes
That explains everything.
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:01:24 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:01:26 AM PDT
by
Robert357
(D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
To: TroutStalker
Before 1960, when poverty and racism were by all accounts far worse, the black family was considerably more stable.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the large majority of black women were married before they had children. Black children were less likely than whites to grow up in two-parent homes, but only slightly so. It was only after 1960, even as more black men were finding jobs and even as legal discrimination was being dismantled with civil-rights legislation, that the family began to unravel. It was precisely that unexpected disconnect that spurred Daniel Patrick Moynihan to warn that the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself in his 1965 report.Thanks for posting... odd to find this in the Atlantic...
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10/05/2015 9:04:10 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dems want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
To: Mercat
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.
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:08:04 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: GOPJ
The poverty and racism ills that one can do to oneself can be far worse than what can be done to one by others.
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10/05/2015 9:09:03 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: TroutStalker
and that POS LBJ is never mentioned...
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:09:16 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Darteaus94025
Interesting... did Mr. Obama personally get caught in this perverse incentive scheme himself, or are you just using his name symbolically?
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:10:50 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: TroutStalker
more racially sensitive What happened to "Blind Justice"?
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:11:56 AM PDT
by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: Chode
I believe it was JFK who said that he would have that [racial slur] “voting Democrat for the next hundred years.”
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:11:57 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: TroutStalker
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posted on
10/05/2015 9:13:37 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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