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The war on drugs may have contributed to it, but I think the
Posted on: March 21, 2018 at 09:51:00 CT
JeffB MU
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problem goes deeper.
I think there has been a war on the family for decades, though many of the participants may not even be aware of it.
I remember former US ambassador Alan Keyes talking about it on the radio one time.
He said he grew up in a poor black family, but like most of their neighbors, their family was intact, with a father and a mother. He said they had very little money, but crime was nothing compared to what it is today. He said they used to joke that they didn't have to worry about robbers, because they didn't own much of anything of value.
Government programs intended to help the poor pull themselves out of poverty had the opposite effect.
Some claim that there was a deliberate attempt by some to try and bankrupt the US in order to bring about a new social order. Whether or not that is true, we do know that many social workers around that time, implementing the new Big Government Great Society programs began advising husbands and fathers to leave their family so that they could receive government benefits. If the father remained and had a job, even one paying very low wages, the family could not qualify for these benefits.
Supposedly, many of these fathers and husbands were very reluctant to do so, but a growing number of them decided that it would be best for their families and moved out, often staying close by and doing their best to be the husband and father God called them to be by staying in their lives as best they could without running afoul of government rules and requirements.
Over time, more and more husbands and fathers followed the early adopters in this strategy. Also over time, they tended to drift a little further away from their families and their influence waned as it is difficult to be a good role model when living somewhere else.
The relatively strong and stable families from the earlier era began to fade and to wane with time, especially from one generation to another. The commitment to family was not as strong in young men who had been raised with a family with an absent father, even if he tried to be a good father. That phenomenon snowballed upon itself from generation to generation and it wasn't long before single parent families became the norm among the poor, who were disproportionately black.
The whites in that situation were a smaller percentage of the white population than was the case among the blacks.
I think that the drug abuse and the crime are a direct result of those broken families, which were in turn a direct result of the application and design of those government programs.
I think there has been a war on the family for decades, though many of the participants may not even be aware of it.
I remember former US ambassador Alan Keyes talking about it on the radio one time.
He said he grew up in a poor black family, but like most of their neighbors, their family was intact, with a father and a mother. He said they had very little money, but crime was nothing compared to what it is today. He said they used to joke that they didn't have to worry about robbers, because they didn't own much of anything of value.
Government programs intended to help the poor pull themselves out of poverty had the opposite effect.
Some claim that there was a deliberate attempt by some to try and bankrupt the US in order to bring about a new social order. Whether or not that is true, we do know that many social workers around that time, implementing the new Big Government Great Society programs began advising husbands and fathers to leave their family so that they could receive government benefits. If the father remained and had a job, even one paying very low wages, the family could not qualify for these benefits.
Supposedly, many of these fathers and husbands were very reluctant to do so, but a growing number of them decided that it would be best for their families and moved out, often staying close by and doing their best to be the husband and father God called them to be by staying in their lives as best they could without running afoul of government rules and requirements.
Over time, more and more husbands and fathers followed the early adopters in this strategy. Also over time, they tended to drift a little further away from their families and their influence waned as it is difficult to be a good role model when living somewhere else.
The relatively strong and stable families from the earlier era began to fade and to wane with time, especially from one generation to another. The commitment to family was not as strong in young men who had been raised with a family with an absent father, even if he tried to be a good father. That phenomenon snowballed upon itself from generation to generation and it wasn't long before single parent families became the norm among the poor, who were disproportionately black.
The whites in that situation were a smaller percentage of the white population than was the case among the blacks.
I think that the drug abuse and the crime are a direct result of those broken families, which were in turn a direct result of the application and design of those government programs.
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The war on drugs may have contributed to it, but I think the - JeffB MU - 3/21 09:51:00