re: "Stop blaming black parents for underachieving kids"

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Do you honestly agree with this? Our moral fiber began unravelling when women started to view sex as young men do? I am of the opinion that our changing views on sex as a society have nothing to do with our success as a country, especially with respect to kids underachieving in the classroom. I also believe it nonsensical to make a point specific to women changing their views as an example of moral decline. Why the gender distinction? His point is equally made if he suggested the unravelling commenced when the entire population started viewing sex like young men do. He is blaming women specifically as the precipitating factor. There's an innate sexism in that blame that detracts from the argument in my opinion. You are free to disagree obviously. 

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I believe the genders play different roles in our society and sexual morality was considered the purview of women for a long time. I also believe the breakdown of the family unit has done all races, but blacks more specifically, more harm than anything else in modern America. I dont remember the exact stats but the odds of a man from a single parent home winding up in jail are multiples higher than a child from a traditional family. The odds of a single mother child becoming a single mother are very high as well. Maybe I am wrong but this seems to be a driver for many problems we face as a society today.Perhaps we are taking his comments differently. I took his comments to mean the increase in numbers of sexual partners and lack of concern about out of wetlock births leads to more one or no parent homes. This change in sexual attitudes also has lead to the huge increase in the amount of children being raised by grandparents or other relatives. I have never seen a single study or heard a single person state this is a good thing. Perhaps your opinion on this differs, mine is not a religeous or moral stance just a social one.