Percentage of US births to unwed mothers:
Blacks, 77%
Hispanics, 57%
Hispanic immigrants, 49%
Black immigrants, 34%
Whites, 30%
Asians, 27%
White immigrants, 13%
Asian immigrants, 11%
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Percentage of US births to unwed mothers:
Blacks, 77%
Hispanics, 57%
Hispanic immigrants, 49%
Black immigrants, 34%
Whites, 30%
Asians, 27%
White immigrants, 13%
Asian immigrants, 11%
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It’s almost as though… having two parents has something to do with how successful you are in life.
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Nah, that can’t be. People aren’t supposed to be impacted by such unimportant thing as the home environment where they grow up.
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What home environment? .gov policy has been working for decades to take kids out of their homes and away from their parents for as much time as possible, so that parents aren’t needed. Pre-K for everyone. Subsidized daycare. before- and after-school “programs” (just daycare with a limp attempt at organized games, mostly). I noticed, not so long ago, in my hometown, a special daycare had popped up– sort of a cross between a drop-in daycare and a walk-in clinic, where you could drop your kid off for the workday when they were too sick to go to a regular daycare or school.
I’m sure all the kids raised in that milieu will be totally fine.
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In SA, both parents are often working during the day with long commutes. Unsupervised kids with nothing to do during the afternoon get recruited into gangs. In this situation any kind of daycare activities would be a good idea.
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Yes, that is always the justification for the programs, and there’s some merit to it. But it never gets at the root of the problem: why isn’t there any family available to look after children at home? If not parents, why not grandparents or aunties? Why are all public efforts directed at the downstream problems, instead of the source?
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Extended families have their own problems. Typically the worst gangsterism in SA occurs in working class districts where people aspire to a middle class nuclear family lifestyle but can’t afford it.
“Solving” this problem by forcing people back into their “authentic traditional” way of life was a major justification for the apartheid, so I don’t see that happening.
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Everything has its problems, and usually government enacting positive interventions to solve such problems is the wrong answer. Any real progress comes from the ground level. The best government can do, generally, is stop incentivizing the dysfunction.
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Well, the federalist position is that these decisions should be devolved as far as possible to people familiar with the local situation as opposed to central one-size-fits-all solutions.
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