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To: kabar
The breakdown of the family is more the cause and welfare the symptom.

I strongly disagree. The breakdown of the family began coincident with communist Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. You quote a lot of current statistics, as thought they tell you something about how we got where we are. They don't.

76 posted on 02/12/2019 10:49:59 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

I am 75 years old. I remember LBJ’s War on Poverty quite well. I also remember Moynihan’s 1965 report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, that provided the disclosure that the Negro out of wedlock birth rate was a horrifying 25%!!!

The welfare state has made things far worse along with other factors such as an education system that fails to inculcate moral values, a decline of religion coupled with a rise in atheism, and the loss of shame in a society that tolerates immorality. This is not just an American problem. It exists throughout the Western world, which is in decline.


78 posted on 02/12/2019 12:49:35 PM PST by kabar
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