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Showing Original Post only (View all)Totally agree with Kristoff article today - " When Liberals Blew It "- [View all]
I am Asian - and we have among the lowest out of wedlock birth rates and big part of that is our culture that emphasizes on a conventional order of priorities for education, career, marriage and children - so my views are obviously biased.
I really feel the Republicans have a valid point when they say "we need to have to policies that discourage single parenting among minorities".
I know this is a very sensitive topic - but this is conversation we need to have among ourselves...
When Liberals Blew It
Fifty years ago this month, Democrats made a historic mistake.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the time a federal official, wrote a famous report in March 1965 on family breakdown among African-Americans. He argued presciently and powerfully that the rise of single-parent households would make poverty more intractable.
The fundamental problem, Moynihan wrote, is family breakdown. In a follow-up, he explained: From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families ... never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future that community asks for and gets chaos.
Liberals brutally denounced Moynihan as a racist. He himself had grown up in a single-mother household and worked as a shoeshine boy at the corner of Broadway and 43rd Street in Manhattan, yet he was accused of being aloof and patronizing, and of blaming the victim.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/opinion/when-liberals-blew-it.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region.
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Totally agree with Kristoff article today - " When Liberals Blew It "- [View all]
srican69
Mar 2015
OP
I am not so much against single parents as much as I am for delaying having kids
srican69
Mar 2015
#29
Moynihan was part of the advance guard of the neo-liberal/neo-conservative
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#7
Perhaps the OP could have "discouraged" my ex-wife from having an affair, eventually creating...
villager
Mar 2015
#28
Seems Krugman has already debunked this. Kristof, as usual, is awful with the facts.
Chathamization
Mar 2015
#9
And that's it. BOOM goes the dynamite, and Kristoff's halfassed analysis. nt
stevenleser
Mar 2015
#15
That is absolute BS ..many people in Asia world are desparately poor/ unemployed and yet have
srican69
Mar 2015
#22
Then that also proves that marriage does nothing to relieve poverty or unemployment
betterdemsonly
Mar 2015
#66
This has been debunked so many ways and so many times. Blaming the victims of poverty never gets old
greatlaurel
Mar 2015
#13
but having a couple kids that they cannot supports feeds that same vicious cycle of poverty.
srican69
Mar 2015
#14
Maybe it is insulting and eugenic to ask poor people not to breed instead of raising their wages so
betterdemsonly
Mar 2015
#17
The prejudices of ethnic and class privilege are blinding you to how people become impoverished.
greatlaurel
Mar 2015
#37
Thanks to you & others for setting this RW spin straight, "unmarried women cause poverty" per
appalachiablue
Mar 2015
#92
What do you consider "not supporting" and what do you consider "best opportunities"?
uponit7771
Mar 2015
#46
Indeed. If marriage is the solution why are there so many impoverished children in Asia?
appalachiablue
Mar 2015
#94
So at the end of the day fuck facts and be racial hunh? Come on, progressives are better than this
uponit7771
Mar 2015
#16
I tend to agree with Mr. Wilson. Take away poverty and you are more apt to have stable
rhett o rick
Mar 2015
#87
Read Ta'Nehisi Coates' article in the Atlantic on reparations and educate yourself
brush
Mar 2015
#23
You realize that "policies that discourage single parenting among minorities" would just be
Marr
Mar 2015
#31
Why the fuck won't the GOP support a job bill? Why won't the GOP discourage racism instead of
valerief
Mar 2015
#53
What kind of policies do you have in mind and are you also sure you are not
TheKentuckian
Mar 2015
#72
(1) We need to have a justice system that doesn't lock up so many minority men.
Agnosticsherbet
Mar 2015
#86