Booray said:
muddybrazos said:
Booray said:
Doc Holliday said:
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BusyTarpDuster2017 said:
boognish_bear said:
Here is something I saw the other day talked about some possibilities.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/06/11/time-will-not-heal-5-ways-to-address-the-inheritance-of-black-poverty-starting-now/
Any discussion about the cycle of poverty in blacks that does not address cultural and behavioral problems within the black community as being a major cause, is NOT an honest discussion. Your article is one of those.
So you believe the black is inferior to the white race?
Explain the data behind fatherless black homes. Why is that happening at such a high rate? It's not unique to poverty. If that was happening to white people, I'd conclude that it's become normalized and accepted behavior in the white community instead of blaming society.
What is the out of wedlock rate for white people in poverty? Is it that much different than black people in poverty? It could be that the difference in white and black out of wedlock rates is a symptom of income/wealth inequality regardless of race.
I really don't know.
Most of the time when people are married they are not in poverty bc of the whole 2 people sharing income & expenses together. Getting married before having kids and having a job are two of the best ways to not be in poverty.
Yes.
That is not the point of the inquiry. There seems to be a dispute about why "black people" do things that are not productive. Is it race or culture? The example is pregnancy out of wedlock; the "proof" is a higher rate for blacks than whites.
My point is that the statistic may be misleading: it is something poor people do more often. Because there are more poor blacks than poor whites, the percentage of blacks with children out of wedlock is larger but not because of race or culture, but based on poverty in the first place.
Its an untested theory on this board so far but until it is disproven it is just as logical of an answer as "there is a problem with black culture."
About 34% of children are born into single parent households and that number has held steady since 2010:
In 2019 (and I dont think anything here is particularly shocking, if you had asked me to rank these I would ranked them in this order though maybe not these percentages)
64% of African American children
52% of American Indian
42% of Hispanics
25% of Whites
15% of Asians
It is very hard to find good data by race, by income...however, we know that children in single family homes are far more likely to live in poverty. That number hovers in the 40-45% range which is approx 3X the number for children from 2 parent homes.
We also know that single parent homes are a cycle. Girls born into single parent homes are 2X as likely to ALSO have children in a single parent home.
From Heritage Foundation:
For families with the same race and amount of parental education, when compared to intact married families, children from single parent homes are:
- More than twice as likely to be arrested for a juvenile crime.
- Twice as likely to receive treatment for behavioral and emotional problems.
- Approximately twice as likely to be expelled or suspended from school.
- A third more likely to drop out of high school.
Furthermore, girls from single parent homes are more than twice as likely to have a child without getting married. And by the time children from single parent homes reach age 30 when adjusted for families of the same race and similar incomes they are three times more likely to end up in jail. Finally, children from single parent homes are 50 percent more likely to experience poverty, even when adjusted for original differences in family income and poverty during childhood.
Also, not for nothing, in the mid 1960s almost 95% of children were born into 2 parent households.
