[Mercat]

It was probably almost 20 years ago that I got a call from a black man who was almost in tears. He and his wife had I think 4 kids and his wife had told him that she had gone to the welfare people who had told her that she would have X amount of money in the household if she divorced her husband. It was more than he was bringing home so she was going to kick him out. I was shocked. That’s the cause of the breakdown. My SIL is a retired lactation specialist and she told me years ago that the single moms would come in to deliver their babies and calculate to the penny how much money and other perks that they would get if they went out and got pregnant again. No mention of fathers.

[Uncle Miltie]

[Iron Munro]

The federal government is the father.

[BitWielder1]

The high incarceration rate is a symptom, not a cause, of the breakdown of the black community.
Letting more people out of jail will not improve life for the blacks either, it's not like the ex-cons are suddenly going to turn into providers.
Some may, most of them won't.

[Responsibility2nd]

If you only read four words of this entire article; read these...

blacks commit more crimes

That explains everything.

[GOPJ]

Before 1960, when poverty and racism were by all accounts far worse, the black family was considerably more stable. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the large majority of black women were married before they had children. Black children were less likely than whites to grow up in two-parent homes, but only slightly so. It was only after 1960, even as more black men were finding jobs and even as legal discrimination was being dismantled with civil-rights legislation, that the family began to unravel. It was precisely that unexpected disconnect that spurred Daniel Patrick Moynihan to warn that “the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself” in his 1965 report.

Thanks for posting... odd to find this in the Atlantic...

[Chode]

and that POS LBJ is never mentioned...

[Feckless]

more racially sensitive

What happened to "Blind Justice"?

[DungeonMaster]

Black Wives Matter.

[MrB]

So the author is blaming an unfair criminal justice system for the lack of black fathers in the home?
Seriously?

I guess they’ll see anything except for the truth - that the policies that make them feel good about themselves are responsible for the destruction of the black family.

[Iron Munro]

The federal government is the provider for these fatherless children.

THey are raised on welfare and ADC.

Don’t forget about the free (taxpayer paid) meals in schools.

At some schools over 80% of the students qualify for free meals.

Some schools provide not only lunches but breakfast and a snack or take-home supper.

Some provide meals on weekends.

Some provide meals on holidays and over summer vacation.

Is it any surprise that as they age (age, not necessarily grow up) they look to the federal government to provide for them and whatever babies they might produce?

[arthurus]

Incarceration takes away serial boyfriends, not husbands and fathers which are rare birds in the ghetto, anyway.

[marron]

Endemic poverty in a modern industrial economy is caused primarily by broken families and substance abuse.

Street crime is similarly marked by broken families and substance abuse.

And broken families and substance abuse tend to go together.

If you are looking for the roots of the destruction of the black family, its the same as the destruction of American families in general only worse. Having babies when you aren’t married is a key first step off the cliff. Getting mixed up with drugs seals the deal.

[Joe Boucher]

It’s us white devils fault,
Always doing our best to keep the black man down.

[pluvmantelo]

adapt the nation’s crime policies to a safer, more racially sensitive era

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It may be a more racially sensitive era, but it definitely won’t be a safer one.

[Carry me back]

Its all the white man’s fault, we havent given them enough handouts. What a sick govt we have.