Project 2025

[Dill]

(06-21-2024, 05:45 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Yes, used to.  Do they still have some effect today, sure.  But we don't have segregation any loner in contrast to your claim.
Sure, second wave feminism.
As you're clearly dying to throw in your own examples of causes please do so and stop blue balling us all.

Though segregation is no longer legal or open, during it's hundred years between 1865 and 1965, one consequence of it was that urban Black families were
concentrated in poor, sometimes dangerous housing areas, from which they found it difficult to leave for a number or reasons, including fewer employment
opportunities, and from which black sons and fathers were arrested and incarcerated in proportionally higher numbers. 

The moment segregation became illegal, all those "ghettos" and their effects did not suddenly disappear; Blacks continued to be arrested and incarcerated at higher rates.
That means more homes without fathers, more black mothers adjusting to life without husbands and fathers. 

I think there are a lot of causes of single parent homes, starting with the "natural" ones, like the death of one parent, and then less natural ones like divorce and drug/alcohol addiction. But when significant differences in the proportion of single parent homes emerge between different demographics, and one demographic has generally had more access to wealth, personal security, and a lower incarceration rate, then one is entitled to wonder such social factors might explain the difference. 

It's not clear why 2nd wave feminism would answer the call here, since that was mostly focused on equal pay and access to education and careers--the concerns of middle and upper class women. But the advance of women's equality could be a contributing factor in the case of both Black and white families. 

A much more popular explanation from the right is the "culture of poverty." The poor adapt to their poverty by embracing deficient values and behaviors, which become generational. Guilder's Wealth and Poverty (1981) fuses that CoP with Christianity to advocate for supply-side economics. The deficient values of poor families would be transformed by Christianized males socialized to take care of their wives and homes by working hard and generating wealth, etc.  Women need to remain chaste until marriage, so they've a role too, but the emphasis is on the fathers stepping up, propelled by newfound faith, not government handouts.