Unfortunately, we have created this situation by offering benefits to women and children if the father is not officially present. And if the father is not officially present he has no authority. And if the father is not officially present, he is encouraged to further abandon his family responsibilities.
We also have a system of unequal justice where the rich are less likely to get charged, get better lawyers when they are charged, are less likely to get convicted, and if convicted are more likely to get probation or suspended sentences. The poor are more likely to get charged, are unable to afford a lawyer, are less likely to make bail. Then their court-appointed lawyer negotiates a plea deal that results in real jail time. They are separated from their families, fired from their jobs, and then have a record that makes it harder to get a new job when they get out.
Their abandoned sons are more likely to join a gang. And the process is repeated in the next generation.
This is not just a black problem. As the number of whites and latinos join the welfare roles, the problem grows.
And, IMHO, the offering of benefits to women and children at the levels at which they are offered (when considering the myriad of benefits available from various taxpayer-funded sources), actually encourages them to have more and more children with absent fathers.
>This is not just a black problem
It is a cultural problem. It is about honor!
With welfare creating an authority gap by eliminating fathers and grand fathers as clan leaders, young men find gangs as the answer to the void. In a gang they can find the cultural
solution for how they fit into the honor pecking order.