t’s been about that way for I don’t know how many decades. At least 35 years.”
Before LBJ’s Great Society gift to the black family, black people were far more likely to marry and stay married. LBJ created the great profession for “baby mamas.”
It started before LBJ’s Great Society. I had a liberal maiden aunt who had been in the state legislature. She had a black servant and companion who told her in the 1950s that the state’s support for unwed mothers was destroying the institution of marriage in her community. A young woman who was unhappy in her family could get pregnant, have her own apartment, and a livable income.