He called it all and in enormous detail. Look it up.
In 1965 his office issued The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report. Its conclusion that African-American urban poverty could be traced in part to a breakdown of family structure was at the time much criticized by civil-rights activists but is now generally regarded as an unusually prescient analysis.
I read the report in high school and again in college.
What a mess, and how does one change the direction of these kids? And the ones yet unborn(who haven’t been aborted).
America threw in the towel because it felt guilty; and because it kicked God out of society. And now we see daily what that guilt and rejection of the Almighty has wrought.