To: TroutStalker
It was probably almost 20 years ago that I got a call from a black man who was almost in tears. He and his wife had I think 4 kids and his wife had told him that she had gone to the welfare people who had told her that she would have X amount of money in the household if she divorced her husband. It was more than he was bringing home so she was going to kick him out. I was shocked. That’s the cause of the breakdown. My SIL is a retired lactation specialist and she told me years ago that the single moms would come in to deliver their babies and calculate to the penny how much money and other perks that they would get if they went out and got pregnant again. No mention of fathers.
2 posted on
10/05/2015 8:44:04 AM PDT by
Mercat
(You don't recommend better diet and exercise for a shark bite.)
To: TroutStalker
3 posted on
10/05/2015 8:44:34 AM PDT by
Uncle Miltie
(We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
To: TroutStalker
The federal government is the father.
8 posted on
10/05/2015 8:52:11 AM PDT by
Iron Munro
(Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have stores of food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has))
To: TroutStalker
The high incarceration rate is a symptom, not a cause, of the breakdown of the black community.
Letting more people out of jail will not improve life for the blacks either, it's not like the ex-cons are suddenly going to turn into providers.
Some may, most of them won't.
10 posted on
10/05/2015 8:58:43 AM PDT by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: TroutStalker
If you only read four words of this entire article; read these...
blacks commit more crimes
That explains everything.
11 posted on
10/05/2015 9:01:24 AM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
To: TroutStalker
Before 1960, when poverty and racism were by all accounts far worse, the black family was considerably more stable.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the large majority of black women were married before they had children. Black children were less likely than whites to grow up in two-parent homes, but only slightly so. It was only after 1960, even as more black men were finding jobs and even as legal discrimination was being dismantled with civil-rights legislation, that the family began to unravel. It was precisely that unexpected disconnect that spurred Daniel Patrick Moynihan to warn that the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself in his 1965 report.Thanks for posting... odd to find this in the Atlantic...
13 posted on
10/05/2015 9:04:10 AM PDT by
GOPJ
(Dems want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
To: TroutStalker
and that POS LBJ is never mentioned...
16 posted on
10/05/2015 9:09:16 AM PDT by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: TroutStalker
more racially sensitive What happened to "Blind Justice"?
18 posted on
10/05/2015 9:11:56 AM PDT by
Feckless
(The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
To: TroutStalker
20 posted on
10/05/2015 9:13:37 AM PDT by
DungeonMaster
(God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
To: TroutStalker
So the author is blaming an unfair criminal justice system for the lack of black fathers in the home?
Seriously?
I guess they’ll see anything except for the truth - that the policies that make them feel good about themselves are responsible for the destruction of the black family.
22 posted on
10/05/2015 9:16:38 AM PDT by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: TroutStalker
The federal government is the provider for these fatherless children.
THey are raised on welfare and ADC.
Don’t forget about the free (taxpayer paid) meals in schools.
At some schools over 80% of the students qualify for free meals.
Some schools provide not only lunches but breakfast and a snack or take-home supper.
Some provide meals on weekends.
Some provide meals on holidays and over summer vacation.
Is it any surprise that as they age (age, not necessarily grow up) they look to the federal government to provide for them and whatever babies they might produce?
31 posted on
10/05/2015 9:38:28 AM PDT by
Iron Munro
(Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have stores of food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has))
To: TroutStalker
Incarceration takes away serial boyfriends, not husbands and fathers which are rare birds in the ghetto, anyway.
32 posted on
10/05/2015 9:40:05 AM PDT by
arthurus
(It's true.)
To: TroutStalker
Endemic poverty in a modern industrial economy is caused primarily by broken families and substance abuse.
Street crime is similarly marked by broken families and substance abuse.
And broken families and substance abuse tend to go together.
If you are looking for the roots of the destruction of the black family, its the same as the destruction of American families in general only worse. Having babies when you aren’t married is a key first step off the cliff. Getting mixed up with drugs seals the deal.
34 posted on
10/05/2015 9:47:20 AM PDT by
marron
To: TroutStalker
It’s us white devils fault,
Always doing our best to keep the black man down.
37 posted on
10/05/2015 10:14:51 AM PDT by
Joe Boucher
( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
To: All
adapt the nations crime policies to a safer, more racially sensitive era
It may be a more racially sensitive era, but it definitely won’t be a safer one.
43 posted on
10/05/2015 1:29:10 PM PDT by
pluvmantelo
(I gotta get a tattoo at 12:30 and I don't want to be late.)
To: TroutStalker
Its all the white man’s fault, we havent given them enough handouts. What a sick govt we have.
44 posted on
10/05/2015 7:50:26 PM PDT by
Carry me back
(.Cut the feds by 90%)
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