The following, largely based on "Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human," by William Tucker, chapter 21
1. In 1965, the Assistant Secretary of Labor under LBJ was Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The prescient Moynihan published a memo warning of the "coming crisis" of single parent families among African-Americans:
"The Negro Family: The Case For National Action." http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/history/webid-meynihan.htm
2. Moynihan pointed to the statistic of black children born out of wedlock, 25% at that time, a fact that had never occurred in any other culture. More shocking, the occurrence was independent of poverty and of unemployment:
in the 60's, with black unemployment approaching unprecedentedly low levels, welfare rolls were climbing!
3. Moynihan identified the source of the problem as a rise of illegitimacy and the breakdown in family formation. It was not an increase in pregnancy, but that African-American women were no longer marrying the fathers of their children: instead, they were going on the welfare rolls.
4. He correctly predicted that this portended problems far greater than racial discrimination or civil rights. He warned that this would produce intergenerational poverty,
.... men no longer held to the traditional responsibilities of child support and protecting families,
....and cause delinquency, joblessness, school failure, crime, and all that became known as 'underclass' behaviors.
5. What happens when opinions are posed that run counter to Liberal doctrine, political correctness? Yup....he was called a racist, and that it was all due to discrimination and the legacy of slavery, and nothing at all to do with family breakdown.
6. Right on cue, enter battalions of Liberal academics producing studies designed to show that there was nothing wrong with single parent homes.
a. Feminist contingents jumped in, proclaiming single motherhood 'heroic,' a noble alternative to the 'patriarchal' family!
Of course, the problem simply got worse.
7. What should be seen as nothing less than cowardice, or at the least, pandering, Liberal politicians changed the conversation from 'the problem of single motherhood,' to 'how can we assist the single mother?'
Schools set up nurseries for pregnant teenagers, social welfare programs expanded, more food stamps and priorities to public housing, and the line between Medicaid and AFDC was blurred!
Making motherhood at 15 attractive! Liberal leadership at its finest!
8. One would think that the speeches of Liberal politicians was satire if it wasn't so pathetic.
Governor Mario Cuomo of New York said,
"If we take a 16-year-old single mother, get her on welfare, give her food stamps, get her her own apartment and have her back in school taking classes, what's the problem?" The Coming Cultural Disintegration | The American Spectator
"If we take a 16-year-old single mother,
...get her on welfare,
...give her food stamps,
....get her her own apartment and have her back in school taking classes,
.... what's the problem?"
What??????
1. In 1965, the Assistant Secretary of Labor under LBJ was Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The prescient Moynihan published a memo warning of the "coming crisis" of single parent families among African-Americans:
"The Negro Family: The Case For National Action." http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdol/history/webid-meynihan.htm
2. Moynihan pointed to the statistic of black children born out of wedlock, 25% at that time, a fact that had never occurred in any other culture. More shocking, the occurrence was independent of poverty and of unemployment:
in the 60's, with black unemployment approaching unprecedentedly low levels, welfare rolls were climbing!
3. Moynihan identified the source of the problem as a rise of illegitimacy and the breakdown in family formation. It was not an increase in pregnancy, but that African-American women were no longer marrying the fathers of their children: instead, they were going on the welfare rolls.
4. He correctly predicted that this portended problems far greater than racial discrimination or civil rights. He warned that this would produce intergenerational poverty,
.... men no longer held to the traditional responsibilities of child support and protecting families,
....and cause delinquency, joblessness, school failure, crime, and all that became known as 'underclass' behaviors.
5. What happens when opinions are posed that run counter to Liberal doctrine, political correctness? Yup....he was called a racist, and that it was all due to discrimination and the legacy of slavery, and nothing at all to do with family breakdown.
6. Right on cue, enter battalions of Liberal academics producing studies designed to show that there was nothing wrong with single parent homes.
a. Feminist contingents jumped in, proclaiming single motherhood 'heroic,' a noble alternative to the 'patriarchal' family!
Of course, the problem simply got worse.
7. What should be seen as nothing less than cowardice, or at the least, pandering, Liberal politicians changed the conversation from 'the problem of single motherhood,' to 'how can we assist the single mother?'
Schools set up nurseries for pregnant teenagers, social welfare programs expanded, more food stamps and priorities to public housing, and the line between Medicaid and AFDC was blurred!
Making motherhood at 15 attractive! Liberal leadership at its finest!
8. One would think that the speeches of Liberal politicians was satire if it wasn't so pathetic.
Governor Mario Cuomo of New York said,
"If we take a 16-year-old single mother, get her on welfare, give her food stamps, get her her own apartment and have her back in school taking classes, what's the problem?" The Coming Cultural Disintegration | The American Spectator
"If we take a 16-year-old single mother,
...get her on welfare,
...give her food stamps,
....get her her own apartment and have her back in school taking classes,
.... what's the problem?"
What??????
