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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting.

It’s wise that they are squarely addressing one of the issues that has hampered their success in myriad ways. [b]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. [/b]I don’t think these relationships and supports they promote will help unless people are living together and sharing bills and child rearing. [/quote]

This. It's hard to argue with reality.

But something else to consider - if many of these women had only one child, there is a good chance that at some point in that child's life if the parent isn't a substance abuser, that she would reach a point above struggling in abject poverty and for that one child, he would reach the middle class changing his and his children's life long trajectory.

It's not the first child that plunges them into poverty it's having 2, 3 or 4+[/quote]

Only child here. My parents both grew up in poverty and decided to have 1 kid because they knew that’s all the could afford if they wanted to be able to provide me with opportunities in life. They were able to invest in keeping me active in extracurriculars, afford a home in a good school zone, paid for college, and helped me with graduate school. They even have me a downpayment as a wedding gift. I now have a six figure income and a 900k house. I married someone with a graduate degree and six figure income as well. It’s not popular opinion, but it’s true that having children is a huge detriment to upward class mobility, particularly if you have kids young.

That said, having multiple children at a young age without financial means is a tough cycle to break. I don’t think we can just lay the blame at lack of self control because lack of education/role models, poor understanding of finances, disempowerment of women, etc. plays into it too.

Which is why I 100% support free birth control, sex education in schools, life skills/financial courses in middle and high schools, pro-choice protections, etc. [/quote]

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