In the black community, two-parent households are becoming an endangered species. Census data reveal that about 40 percent of all Americans children (regardless of race) are born out of wedlock; that number jumps to 53 percent for Hispanics and 71 percent for blacks. The Great Society programs of the 1960s, which did nothing to cut the poverty rate, implemented rules that inadvertently punished two-parent households, creating a disincentive for families to stay together. As a result, black children today are less likely to grow up with their mother and father than black children born during the time of slavery.
No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.4
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