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This is something I wish black leaders especially would endorse in poor communities.

As a certified FL teacher who taught in inner city public schools, I think the black leaders really fail to lead their communities out of poverty by not promoting marriage more often and by failing to get these kids started in a TWO-parent household. Everything, just everything, is so much harder on these kids when they have only one parent at home -- or, as is often the case, no parent caring for them, as they are shuffled from relative to relative because daddy is gone, mommy is in jail. It's a terrible start in life, and it adversely impact the child's academic learning because there is NO support at home for such learning.

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adversely impact = adversely impacts

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This is something I wish black leaders especially would endorse in poor communities.

Why is it that black people in general see the solution to most issues involves more law, regulation, and or police presence?

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James D. Wright, a sociologist at the University of Central Florida, contends that covenant marriage bills, which have been proposed in more than 20 states and are under consideration in the Michigan and Iowa Legislatures, reflect a shift away from individual liberties toward "a resurrection of traditional values: family, community and patriotism."

I wish people would stop formulating the matter this way. There is nothing anti-liberty about covenant marriage. In fact, the right to commit oneself on one's own terms, and the attendant responsibility for living up to one's commitments, are at the heart of the ideal of freedom. Without those things, no society, however structured or governed, could last for a single generation.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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Thanks for the fine post. Covenant marriage is a fine case of Americans acting on their own to restore our moral base. It will take time, but I believe it will bear fruit.

Richard F.