I agree to a certain extent. However the problem is that 1/4 kids are born without a father at home.
Now the question is this, why are poor people more likely to have single parent families?
The Most Important Statistics About Single Parents
Single Mother Statistics — Single Mother Guide
"30.4% of custodial single mothers and their children lived in poverty"
"18.8% of custodial single fathers and their children lived in poverty"
'Today 1 in 4 children under the age of 18 — a total of about 17.4 million — are being raised without a father
4 and nearly half (45%) live below the poverty line.
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So, nearly half of kids in fatherless families are living in poverty.
What's the relationship between poverty and single parent families? Well it doesn't seem that hard to come up with a few possibilities. Say, poor people are likely to be less well educated. They're more likely to be frustrated with their job, if they have one. They're more likely to get into drugs. Poverty is where the problems get exacerbated massively. Many people have lost hope that their lives will be any good and they're more likely to commit crime.
Do single parents lead to poverty or does poverty lead to single parents, or both, or both are possible but sometimes it's one, sometimes the other and sometimes both?
Another question is this. If you're born into poverty what are your chances of success? I ask this not as an excuse (people are continually look for people looking for excuses and label anyone who say anything they don't like as looking for excuses), but for reality.
Some poor people make it. But only a percentage of them will make it, the rest won't. Now, this is the reality and not all of these poor people can possibly make it, the way the US is set up simply will not allow it. If more poor people rise out of poverty it means those not born in poverty will sink into it.
So doing nothing won't change things. Demanding that poorly educated young people get up off their ass and go do something about it doesn't work because they've grown up believing there is no hope, from the parents, their grandparents, for those around them, and they're looking for a way out but won't get help in education and other areas.
There's a problem. And the problem is made worse by people passing the buck and blaming black people for being in poverty, or for having problems with their families etc.
The questions are. How do you stop this cycle of single parents? How do you stop the cycle of poverty? How do you go about being proactive and making the US work again?
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