True; but we SUBSIDIZE bastardy in this country!
Yes. Patrick Moynihan foresaw what would happen. He was a Democrat, and he tried to warn people, including his boss, Lyndon Johnson. He was laughed at.
In 1964, as an aide to President Lyndon Johnson, he was the first to diagnose the crackup of the African-American family — then in its early stages but today devastatingly obvious to all but the most obdurate. His candor earned him the anger of contemporaries, Johnson included — but he was right, and knew it.