There are many connections here that are not being mentioned. Perhaps the largest is the correlation between the black children who grow up without a father and end up in jail and/or dropping out of school. Humans learn by example and without the proper role models they tend to emulate what they see their older peers do instead of what society would like them to do. Teen street gangs do not a school make.
Political correctness always finds a victim. Teen mothers who haven't a clue are never to blame for becoming baby factories churning out an undisciplined, uneducated, criminal element. The baby daddies can't take responsibility for fathering if they are the criminal element.
Maybe the answer is forced birth control for all inner city teens, no matter what the race. If you couldn't have a kid without a high school diploma, it might make a big dent into the problem.
Trump caught a lot of flack about the border wall... or lack of one. If the wall was built, manned, and the flow of illegals stopped, and the illegals here deported, the millions of jobs formally available to youth would suddenly become available. Try to find a construction site that isn't populated by illegals.
With the halt in traffic across the border comes the halt in the 25 to 50 billion dollars in drug trafficking that feeds much of the crime in inner cities. Screw the political correctness, maybe a couple of hard core military strikes by the US on the known drug cartel strongholds in Mexico would send the proper message.
Maybe an elimination of the national teachers union that allows unqualified teachers to retard the education of the kids in public schools would help, as well as giving school vouchers to the poor so they can send their kids to better schools anyway. Maybe a major change in the school system that allows punishment of badly behaving students instead of the current stupid politically correct nonsense.
I heard there was an inoculation against pregnancy that lasts about a year. Perhaps they need to add it to the measles shot.
Is "proper parenting" a required course in high school?
if political correctness seeks victim
intellectual dishonesty seeks a scapegoat
if only it were as simple as scapegoating single parenthood but numbers don't really mete that out when staying on the topic of racial DISCREPANCY
1. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers
in 2013, 67 percent of black children in single parent, compared to 25 percent of whites
so, that discrepancy decreased from 8:1 to a discrepancy of a litle over 2:1
2.the high school graduation rate has INCREASED from 1964 when blacks had 53 percent the high school grad rate of whites , to 2012 when blacks had 93 percent the graduation rate of whites
3. the college graduation rates of blacks also rose from 42 percent that of whites in 1964 to 62 percent that of whites in 2012
YET with all the single parent DISCREPANCY decreasing, and the educational attainment DISCREPANCY decreasing,, things have little changed
4.incarceration rates have been a constant 5:1
5. black household income has remained a constant 50 percent of white household income
6.blacks are still three times as likely to live in poverty
so if the discrepancy between single parenthood between blacks and whites have decreased
and if the discrepancy between educational achievement between blacks and whites have decreased
why have the discrepancies in incarceration and poverty remained the same?
Edited by
msharmony
on Sat 09/19/15 10:01 AM
