The late Moynihan, whose father abandoned his family, believed that "the richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life." He wanted to create a sense of urgency about the fact that black children were disproportionately denied this inheritance.[. . .]
By 2008, [. . .] The black out-of-wedlock birthrate hit 72.3 percent; for everyone, it was 40.6 percent. This is a slow-moving social catastrophe.[. . .]
"There is one unmistakable lesson in American history," Moynihan wrote, "a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos."
Begging for chaos
The warning America ignored
Rich Lowry
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:18 AM, May 12, 2010
Posted: 11:35 PM, May 11, 2010
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