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Originally Posted by Seaver
I've stayed out of the root-of-the-problem discussion thus far, but I have to point out the incorrect nature of this.
Look up the Harlem Renaissance. Look up the development of black culture throughout the first half of the 20th Century and you will see strong households with strong parental influences. Black schools which looked inward to help develop new talent leading to such greats as George Washington Carver and Dr. Williams. Black doctors who specialized in medication in the ghettos, black teachers inspiring their own to overcome and persevere.
Somewhere along the line the family structure broke down. It was not due to slavery, and the oppression during the equality movements only seemed to strengthen it. Somewhere it broke down, and to be honest I can't figure out what.
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As I understand it, single parent households and out of wedlock births have increased a lot since the sixties for both blacks and whites with blacks being about twice as many. Single parent (mainly women) households are now considered normal.
I recall several years ago watching a Bill Moyers special concerning the growing number of black teenage pregnancies. The girls actually were trying to get pregnant and said they wanted someone in this world who would love them unconditionally. The boys said they felt no obligation to support their kids and most of the girls were not trying to collect support from them.
It is an interesting social problem though, why so many women of both races choose to be single parents and so many men choose to be absent fathers.