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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does DC has a higher rate of aggression, crime and drug among teens? If so, why families doesn't take steps to resolve this issue? [/quote]

Because the Great Society programs gutted the black family structure.   [/quote]

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This is the root of it, right here.[/quote]

No.  You guys are delusional.  Slavery, which raped women and sold family members away from other family members, gutted the black family structure.

If you mean welfare, that started under the Social Security Act and was purposefully denied, in southern states, to black families because government didn't want to upend the low-wage labor system for black workers.   When Clinton changed welfare in 1996, the benefit accrued to intact families as well.   And there is very little evidence that ties welfare benefits to a person's decision to cohabitate with their partner, either married or not.

It's concentrated poverty, full stop.  There are decades of evidence for that. [/quote]

A benefit to slaves when they were freed was that they could actually marry and raise their own children.  Marriage rates in the African American community were similar to those white communities until about the 1970s.  That was two generations ago.  Since then man African Americans have  worked their way out of generational poverty and many have not. The reason is often related to a person's family structure.   I see it day and and day out as a teacher in a predominantly African American school in Washington.   You sound as if you have a different lived experience than I do, so I defer to you better understanding of the African American family structure.  I just know that for 23 years, I have witnessed the "teen issues" OP raises first hand.  When a parents are involved in the teen's life, the problems are dealt with in the family rather than the court system.  When a mother, grandmother, auntie, or court appointed guardian is involved, the excuses flow and the bad behavior continues.[/quote]

Are you teaching in areas of concentrated poverty?  Or UMC schools? [/quote]

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