Perhaps liberals are finally ready to accept the 'stubborn' facts about the plight of the American family and will join conservatives in restoring the virtues required to rebuild the basic unit of society.
In his column of Sept. 14, for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof conceded that American liberals are "often reluctant to acknowledge one of the significant drivers of child poverty — the widespread breakdown of family — for fear that to do so would be patronizing or racist."
I’m pleased the liberal establishment is finally agreeing with the longtime position held by conservative social scientists that family structure matters.It's not a recent phenomenon.In 1965, then Assistant Secretary of Labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his groundbreaking report, "The Negro Family: The Case for Nation Action," the "Moynihan Report," as it famously became known, painted a bleak picture of the nation’s inner-city African-American poor.
It also pushed Black families into "a matriarchal structure, which, because it is so out of touch with the rest of American Society, seriously retards the progress of the group as a whole and imposes a crushing burden on the Negro male and, in consequence, on a great many Negro women as well." Great controversy arose after President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a June 1965 commencement speech at Howard University, based on Moynihan’s findings, that if the black family unit did not become more cohesive, all the civil-rights gains would become meaningless.
Lyndon Johnson quickly distanced himself from the speech and his administration repudiated the Moynihan Report.In the mid-1960s, 25% of Black children and 3% of white children were living in families with one parent.
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