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What does this mean? Why does the nuclear family need to be disrupted?
“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” https://tennesseestar.com/2020/06/29/black-lives-matter-plan-to-disrupt-the-nuclear-family-and-dismantle-cisgender-privilege-gains-support-in-corporate-america/ |
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BLM isn't about disrupting families. It's about creating structures that recognize and support different kinds of families. They're disrupting a system that doesn't support all families equally. Lots of people are not living in a 2 parent, married nuclear family. Families that aren't nuclear families deserve support and recognition.
No one is saying that people can't have 2 parent, married nuclear families if they want them and can make it work. |
| Because one size fits all isn't actually one size fits all. |
An excuse for the lack of responsibility. |
| They disrupt the nuclear family structure requirement; not the nuclear family. |
Yes, this. You left out some very important words in your question. They want to disrupt the nuclear family structure requirement, not individual families. |
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Interesting.
It’s wise that they are squarely addressing one of the issues that has hampered their success in myriad ways. Data indicates single parent households tend to languish in poverty. Data correlates poverty with crime rates, poor health, subpar education, limited employment and housing opportunities, etc. But the reality is that much of the stress and negative outcomes flow from single parenting in the black community. I don’t think these relationships and supports they promote will help unless people are living together and sharing bills and child rearing. |
It literally says “we DISRUPT the western prescribed nuclear family...” |
But aren’t there benefits of this structure requirement? |
It says " we disrupt the western prescribed nuclear family REQUIREMENT." You need to read more carefully. |
No. The requirement punishes people who don't live in those types of families and it hasn't lowered our divorce rate or unmarried birth rate. |
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Where are these requirements listed?
I’ve never seen any family structure requirement listed anywhere. |
There is no nuclear family requirement, so I’m not following how a requirement that doesn’t exist “punishes” people? Do you mean to say that raising kids without a partner is hard? No duh. Two incomes are better than one? No duh. You have better job options if you delay parenting until after you’ve earned a degree or received vocational training? No duh. |
Yes. But they require effort. Free range communal parenting is so much easier. |
This: it is a push back against the observation that 70-some-odd percent of black kids are born out of wedlock. |