[GovernmentShrinker]

The welfare system has certainly wreaked havoc on those communities, but growing up with a "violent, predatory young man" in the home isn't going to do the kids any good.

[bert]

There is another very inmportant factor.....grandmothers.

Many encourage daughters to bear children that are abondened or forced onto the grandmother who collects all the various benefits. The matriarch controls the money and thus the collection of kids produced by the various daughters.

Kid are a cash crop.