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Avalanche2 t1_j0m23zf wrote

How the heck did the single motherhood rate of the black community get so out of control? The nuclear family needs to be brought back and valued.

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BallsMahoganey t1_j0o07wr wrote

Because unfortunately a large chunk of our society doesn't want to admit it's a very real and damaging problem.

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Elpfan t1_j0nkol7 wrote

Suggest you do some research outside of Reddit. Answers you get here will tend to be overly simplistic and potentially self serving.

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Katiecnut t1_j0mity9 wrote

It’s called the prison industrial complex

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Evorgleb t1_j0mit0l wrote

A criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons black men at a higher rate and for longer sentences than any other group?

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TylerDurden626 t1_j0op3il wrote

That word “disproportionate” has no meaning if you don’t qualify it.

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Iconicschmoobie t1_j0nxwii wrote

This is a common myth spread by racists. Single motherhood isn’t a huge problem and isn’t exclusively a black community problem. People just aren’t being forced into marriage for being pregnant anymore

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theKtrain t1_j0o68ns wrote

Having half of the resources of a 2 parent household is a massive disadvantage (especially when you’re poor). Calling that perspective racist is laughable.

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Iconicschmoobie t1_j0o6vgb wrote

I said the common myth that black families are missing their fathers is perpetuated by racists. In black communities there are plenty of nuclear families. I think you misinterpreted my comment.

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theKtrain t1_j0o72dy wrote

Ah I see now. Still, the black community does have a higher rate of single-parent households. Its not that they are together but just not married, it’s that the dads aren’t in the house and may not be involved. It’s an issue.

https://fathers.com/the-extent-of-fatherlessness/

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Iconicschmoobie t1_j0oamho wrote

I’d have to see the stats they pull from. They’re saying over 50% of black kids don’t live with their biological fathers. Growing up it always seemed more of an economic/education issue. My black family doesn’t have this issue, most of the people I knew in middle class families did not have this issue. It also only states biological fathers and not step fathers or uncles acting as a father figure. Black and Latin families tend to have multiple generations in the same household or neighborhood. It’s culturally different from white Americans. I don’t think numbers will show that.

I just dislike when people act as if the absence of black fathers and father figures are a raging epidemic. I’ve had people assume I didn’t have a father and it’s weird

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theKtrain t1_j0ocot0 wrote

Anecdotally just through relationships on sports teams or whatever, I’ve seen the rate be way higher for my black peers compared to their white counterparts. This is just one source but every time I’ve looked it up, it’s basically the same numbers.

The stats don’t show generational or family help, which does help, but even that isn’t a total replacement for a kids father being involved in their life and supporting them.

Of course some kids are raised by a single parent and turn out great and I’m definitely not saying it’s impossible, but overall if you take a hundred kids with 2 involved parents and see how they perform compared to hundred kids from a 1 parent home, the kids with 2 parents are going to do better overall. It’s simply a disadvantage.

More money to provide for better things/opportunities, more parental guidance to help a kid find their way, more time to be involved in their life, having a role model, etc.

All of this stuff is compounded when the single parent is poor, and the black community is generally poorer and it just makes it even harder for them.

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Avalanche2 t1_j0oagw3 wrote

Broken down by race, however, the
statistics show stark differences.  The percentage of White children
under 18 who live with both parents almost doubles that of Black
children, according to the data. While 74.3 percent of all White
children below the age of 18 live with both parents, only 38.7 percent
of African-American minors can say the same.

https://afro.com/census-bureau-higher-percentage-black-children-live-single-mothers/

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