Fatherless Households: A National Crisis
PJ Media,
by
Larry Elder
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
10/16/2020 4:52:35 AM
In a recent television appearance, I discussed my appointment to a presidential commission called “The Social Status of Black Men and Black Boys.” I called fatherless households America’s top domestic problem, a particularly severe phenomenon in the Black community where nearly 70% of kids begin their lives in households with unmarried mothers.
I then received the following letter:
“Dear Mr. Elder:
“I saw your interview today. … I wanted to share some information about this.
“In the summer of 1969, I was a first-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at a hospital in New Orleans. I do not know if you are familiar with Charity Hospital. Unfortunately, it was closed by Hurricane Katrina.
The Legacy of LBJ lives on...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 10/16/2020 5:46:23 AM (No. 574158)
When the China Virus panic begins to abate...Release the next crisis!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jlw509 10/16/2020 8:08:32 AM (No. 574262)
Out-of-wedlock births cannot be "solved" by oral contraceptives and IUD's --- not when girls' basic career plan is to get money from the State for having babies, and the baby daddies are strictly told to get the h--- out of the picture. What is needed is to build a Marriage Culture.
What do you need to do that? You need what used to be called "morals" -- usually provided by he Church and the young people's parents -- and you also need decent-paying jobs for the young men. The guys have to know "I can support a family" and the rest of society must tell them "... and you must."
In short, it means a strong church life and a strong economy geared toward establishing, building, and maintaining families based on marriage.
Do not worry about "birth rate" or "population." Marriage is the best,most stable, and most dignified way people take care of each other. And when the people take care of each other, the population takes care of itself.
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lftrn97 10/16/2020 8:15:00 AM (No. 574270)
Thank you Larry. I believe that it's time for a BFM movement and would suggest that no benefits be cut just made dependent on having a verified father's name on the birth certificate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/16/2020 8:31:19 AM (No. 574292)
Liberalism is virulently anti-male. Liberals keep a few eunuchs around, but they are completely emasculated, not a drop of testosterone is allowed in Hillary-world. The liberal Rewards-for-Degeneracy Project drives men out. There isn't a family court judge in America that recognizes father rights. Millions of men have to relocate to avoid being hounded into bankruptcy by "deadbeat Dad Gestapos" hounding them. Yet for some reason, many black women seem proud to have multiple children by a series of bedroom hoppers. and guys with no job are exempt from the deadbeat Dad Gestapo.
How many men of any color would resist the temptation of a cost-free and consequence-free life with multiple sex partners?
Every mainstream entertainment production denigrates men and presents them as bloodthirsty psychopaths or moronic castrated masochists. Most domestic violence is by women against men.
Feminazism is a powerful force in America. It has the political class shivering in fear.
Liberalism doesn't hate just "white" males. Liberalism hates all males.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/16/2020 8:42:19 AM (No. 574305)
Single mothers are the heroes of this Age.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Krause 10/16/2020 8:55:09 AM (No. 574323)
Imagine the effect on a kid growing up never seeing someone in the family ever going to work on a regular basis.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/16/2020 9:10:12 AM (No. 574342)
One of the elements of the Black Lives Matter manifesto is that traditional families - mother, father, married, plus children are not necessary.
and the reason so many 11 year old black girls have babies is that they become sexually active at an early age, and when they go through their first menstrual cycle, they get pregnant, never having their first period.
and, often, the men who impregnate little girls are adult men. there are studies to demonstrate this.)
finally, many middle schools in urban areas have nursery facilities. The have to deal with reality.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/16/2020 11:12:43 AM (No. 574459)
It's a crisis alright and it doesn't happen spontaneously. Hollywood and the media project lifestyles across the country and people are stupid enough to believe that everybody lives this way. According to them, a solid American family does not exist.
I was outraged the other night when I saw the new Skittles commercial. A teenage black boy pals around with some white girls and the final scene depicts him in bed with one of them. Skittles! A kids' candy. What does that have to do with interracial relationships? Absolutely nothing! It's messaging and attempted propaganda. Screw them all, I've had it. The real crime is forcing decent people to pay for their "lifestyle" and illegitimate bastid children.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
columba 10/16/2020 11:26:20 AM (No. 574470)
For decades the govt has encouraged fatherless families.
Govt officials just this week said horrible things about a supreme court nominee who is the wife of a man, who has seven children, and she knows how to cook.
I cannot think of anything more vulgar than the attitude she is faced with.
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You have to realize most of these young girls live at home and their mothers raise the baby. When I took a class at a tech school with some of them, all they understood was a check. They would say "my baby" and not even call them by their names. One had three while in high school.
As far as Latinos, it didn't take long to understand anchor babies gave them a check. Being unmarried made it easier. It's for the children, doncha know.
The elderly are the most under served group in this country.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 10/17/2020 7:27:19 AM (No. 575163)
Our government made illegitimacy pay. No other explanation.
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