I think I’m starting to understand why 13% of the population accounts for 50% of the prison population. I think a lot of their ‘culture problem’ can be explained by the fact that 72% of black children have no father.
How ‘bout this for a solution: If the father IS present in the home, you get X dollars. If the father is NOT present, you get X - $500. Do you think mama would go after papa is there’s $6000/year on the table? Also, I’d make payments aggressively scaled downward for each additional illegitimate child a woman has. There was a woman in New Orleans several years ago who had 13 children and none had the same father. After welfare, housing, medical, and food subsidies, she was making more than I was working a full time teaching job. That’s not right.
The result is a multigenerational matriarchal family structure that where mothers start having children at 14 to get those benefits, the fathers do not live in the homes, the "mother" lives with Grandmother and possibly Great Grandmother, and every one is younger than 50. There is no father around to provide discipline and the boys end up on the street and going to jail.
One problem is that many, if not most of these absent fathers you wouldn't want anywhere near the children they fathered. They think and act like crazed animals and really shouldn't be around kids at all.
Add to absent fathers that they now have 4-5 generations of children being raised by teen moms. Nobody mentally or emotionally matured past 15 years old before having kids. In some cases great grandmom is under 50 years old.