1) Starting in the sixties there was an explosion of children born out-of-wedlock and kids who don’t grow up in two parent families fare more poorly percentage wise on just about any and every scale imaginable including substance abuse, teenage pregnancies, suicide rates, criminality and homelessness.
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This is #1 for a reason. This breakdown of the American family was planned and put into play by America’s worst president ever - Lyndon B. Johnson. His Great Society programs have destroyed the family and - as a result - destroyed America.
Why? Cause healthy strong families are anathema to leftist ideals and democrats depend on the welfare state created by this breakdown.
LBJ, sorry as he was and detrimental as his Great Society was, did not directly destroy the American family. He did not even destroy the black family, he simply made it easier to do things for which they had the perpensity for a maternal lead culture and male irresponsibility and It Takes A Village mentality. The “other” kids saw the Great Society kids getting away with everything in school and life and emulated, thus independent and self sufficient America in general began slipping away.
Totally agree with your post.
Our inner city schools are deficient, but their “raw material” is 80% bastard children.
Another example: in a decent suburb here in Indiana (where my daughter is the teacher) the 3rd grade class has only 42% with intact family (birth mother and father both living in the home).