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Saturday, January 11, 2020

The Power of the 2-Parent Home Is Not a Myth

Among several disturbing elements of Christina Cross’ New York Times op-ed “The Myth of the Two-Parent Home” is the author’s seeming belief that unless growing up with married parents has the same effect on black children as on white youngsters, it is not worthy of endorsement.

Otherwise, asserts the Harvard postdoctoral fellow, “blindly promoting the merits of marriage and the two-parent family is not the answer.”

Her purpose appears to be to show how black families do in comparison to white families, as opposed to what the absolute impact of strengthened family structure would be on black children. Take this excerpt:

"Although in general, youths raised in two-parent families are less likely to live in poverty, black youths raised by both biological parents are still three times more likely to live in poverty than are their white peers. Additionally, black two-parent families have half the wealth of white two-parent families. So, many of the expected economic benefits of marriage and the two-parent family are not equally available to black children."

Yet the research Cross herself cites from the National Center for Education Statistics tells a far more hopeful story about the impact of family structure.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Duh

Isn't it obvious that all of modernity is bad, compared to life 100 years ago?

TheRealRay said...

They needed to do a study to come to this conclusion ? OMG... and duh is 1,000 percent correct...

Anonymous said...

hmmm....


Well,my parents both had a HS education.

We were working poor...food stamps...3 kids...the whole 9yrds....


all three kids grew up, earned education we paid for ourselves...never complained

want to guess our race? Does it matter?

Studies like this do more to rile folks up than answer any real question. In the end, whether one or both parents are in the home, no matter the race or religion, what matters most is the content of character. That is what makes it all work.

Can I get an "Amen"?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Duh

Isn't it obvious that all of modernity is bad, compared to life 100 years ago?

January 11, 2020 at 11:38 AM

What the heck is modernity?

Blogger TheRealRay said...
They needed to do a study to come to this conclusion ? OMG... and duh is 1,000 percent correct...

January 11, 2020 at 1:15 PM

Oh boy, another one