[traviskicks]

This guy said the same thing several times over, but only danced around the root of the real reason for the increase in single black mother hood. These charts should illustrate what was occuring:

http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm

This is why I think Cosby is wrong. Blaming bad parenting is blaming a symptom, not the cause. The cause is government.

[cgbg]

the cause is government.

I totally agree.

I believe it was Edward Banfield in "The Unheavenly City" who explained the difference between rich and poor people is not primarily how much money they make or have, but the length of their time horizon.

Rich or those who will become rich defer pleasures to study hard, work hard and save.

By attempting to fix problems _now_ government inculcates lower class values on society.

If poverty was treated as a virtue that could mold character then the stupid "War On Poverty" could end with the liberals admitting defeat and making the best of it.

[alrea]

Blaming bad parenting is blaming a symptom, not the cause. The cause is government.

Parents and lack of parents is a cause and so is Government. All that anger that causes so much violence is being pushed by parents and government.