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Friday, June 05, 2015

Broken Families Breed Broken Cities Like Baltimore

On the 50th anniversary of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous report on the breakdown of the black family in urban ghettos, Baltimore has descended into the tragic violence and chaos he predicted. In a report titled, “The Negro Family: The Case for Action,” Assistant Secretary of Labor Moynihan, warned that the deterioration of the black family, would result in soaring crime rates if it continued unchecked.

In the most famous passage of the 1965 report, Moynihan, who would later become a Democratic U.S. senator, wrote, “From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder are not only to be expected, they are very near to inevitable.”

When he wrote these words, the illegitimacy rate among African-Americans was 25 percent while illegitimacy nationwide, stood at 7.7 percent. In the mid-1960s thanks largely to Great Society welfare policies, the out-of-wedlock birth rate began to climb rapidly. Today the out-of-wedlock rate for blacks is over 72 percent with even higher rates in inner cities. Illegitimacy among Hispanics is now over 50 percent, and for whites it has risen from the 3 percent in 1960 to 36 percent today.

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9 comments:

  1. Here's a concept SOTP HAVING KIDS YOU CAN'T PAY FOR IDIOT'S!

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  2. It's business for them. The more kids they have, the more welfare money they get in their welfare checks, and the more free benefits they get that we taxpayers have to pay for.

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  3. Here's their concept...They have kids and WE pay.

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  4. Our government make it justification to us more tax. Of course when the churches used to cover this, the shame was enough to quell the madness we see today. However the nanny state, our government condones and fund this irresponsible behavior.

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  5. And don't forget a job and a MAN in the house.
    Most importantly, quit blaming OTHER people for YOUR failures and stupidity.

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  6. 5:22 hit it right on the head! I have heard young black girls talking about how they want to get pregnant for the money!

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  7. Anonymous Anonymous said...
    Here's a concept SOTP(sic) HAVING KIDS YOU CAN'T PAY FOR IDIOT'S!

    They don't pay for them we do.

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  8. Liberalism at it's best. Encourage this behavior through handouts to ensure a future crop of voters who will keep them in power.

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  9. As long as they are rewarded for having children like a puppy mill nothing will ever change.

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