http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/13257.html#
by Carey Roberts







Tantalize single moms with an array of juicy economic incentives, cripple
the Black family, and blame the whole mess on those stingy Conservatives.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/13257.html#
by Carey Roberts







Tantalize single moms with an array of juicy economic incentives, cripple
the Black family, and blame the whole mess on those stingy Conservatives.
Going back to LBJ's Great Society, that's been the essence of the Left's
social welfare program.
[www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0315roberts.html] The end
result was to disenfranchise the male and marginalize fatherhood.

Now we're paying the price for four decades of the Nanny State.

When a girl is raised without the guiding hand of a father, she is at
greater risk of engaging in sexual experimentation - with its
all-too-predictable consequence of unwanted pregnancy. One analysis found
that young women with divorced parents were three times more likely to
have
an out-of-wedlock birth.

Researchers Lorraine Blackman and colleagues recently combed through 125
social science studies and concluded that when fathers are absent, the
harmful effects on boys are also traumatic.
[www.americanvalues.org/html/consequences.htm] According to one study,
Black
teenager boys from broken homes were more likely to be suspended from
school
and get into trouble with the police. And they were six times more likely
to
run away from home.

But when fathers are allowed to stick around, good things begin to happen.

According to Blackman's review, boys from father-present homes benefit
from
three times higher parental involvement. As a result the boys have a much
higher self-concept. They are more likely to be prepared for school. And
to
no great surprise, they are more likely to aspire to a college education.

Overall, father absence harms boys more than girls. Blackman concludes,
"The
marriage benefit appears to be much stronger among African American boys,
who receive considerably more attention when their father is married and
in
the home."

Of course no parent is surprised by these commonsense findings, but now we
have scientific proof.

Some pessimists look at the pattern of intergenerational poverty, crime,
and
broken families. They wonder whether we will ever find the formula to lift
Black men from the bowels of hopelessness and despair.

The simple answer is "yes."


Yes, we need strong educational development and job training programs to
help break the cycles of social pathology. And certainly we must do away
with misguided welfare policies and lock-'em-up child support enforcement.
But book-learning, jobs, and policy reform will only be a start.

The real answer will be found, I believe, in the hearts of Black men. It
is
there that an indomitable spirit and an unquenchable thirst for dignity
still resides.

It was that spirit that in 1968 compelled 1,300 men in Memphis to go on
strike. Weary sanitation workers picked up placards on which they had
etched
the phrase, "I AM A MAN." Think about those four words for a minute. It
was
that march for dignity that brought Martin Luther King to Memphis, only to
be felled by a sniper's bullet.

That same spirit animated a group of brothers to come together to
establish
an organization known as 100 Black Men. Forty-odd years later, the group
has
grown to over 10,000 members working to improve the social and economical
opportunities for all African-Americans.

That animus drove the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity a few years ago to
organize
its ambitious Prostate Cancer Global Awareness Campaign. That campaign
inspired Anheuser-Busch to pledge $250,000 in support of the effort.
Prostate cancer, of course, if far more lethal in Black men than in
Whites.

It's that ineffable character that drove the survivors of a tragic
syphilis
study to establish the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural
Center.
Chipping in their worn-down dimes and quarters, they hoped that future
research projects would never repeat the same mistake.

That spirit is evinced every week in small town churches that dot the
countryside, where all-male gospel groups give their distinctive rendition
of soul-sound. It's the same spirit that guides a group of Baha'i Black
men
to come together once a year to chant prayers and recommit themselves to a
life of service. I chanced across these men a few years ago while grieving
the loss of a family member.

Relieved of artificial impediments, the physical body has a remarkable
ability to heal itself and regenerate its functions. So too the souls of
Black men.










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" The truth shall set you free "

When a girl is raised without the guiding hand of a father, she is at
greater risk of engaging in sexual experimentation - with its
all-too-predictable consequence of unwanted pregnancy. One analysis found
that young women with divorced parents were three times more likely to have
an out-of-wedlock birth.