Obama, Planned Parenthood and Obamacare

I'm not sure if this article is on a blog site or from an actual credible publication (sorry to sound like a skeptic). I would be interested in sources. I don't even see the author's name listed.

I am aware that blacks have the majority of abortions, but I had not heard about their birth rate being so low that they are unable to maintain their race. (I have always heard the opposite).

I disagree that mothers eject fathers from the home. I see most black men walking out on their own. Blacks see raising children as a woman's job. It has been that way for generations. Both genders are very comfortable with the government paying for expenses, and both genders are aware that mothers will recieve more funds if the father is not listed on the birth certificate.

"I disagree that mothers eject fathers from the home. I see most black men walking out on their own. Blacks see raising children as a woman's job."

I think this touches on one of those larger complex issues as well. Some men are simply scumbags and walkout, some women do all they can to keep a father out of the life of them/the children. We can look at statistics and try and decide which group is larger, and we can conjecture about cause, but if that's ALL we look at it misses a lot of the picture.

Example, who is teaching people in the community that raising kids is a woman's job? How young were these men who walked out when they first started getting that message? Of course many of them learned it from their own fathers walking out, but did they have male role models in school? Probably not. In the TV shows that they watched, were fathers heroes or goofs? When they were dating the mother of their children, did she ask if he wanted to be a father? Was she concerned if his job wasn't one that would allow him to spend lots of time helping around the house? I've never heard anything like that on a date I've gone on, not directly to me anyways. It doesn't seem to be a concern.

How have their friends and family coped with these situations? Did they see courts punishing fathers who walked away for not being part of their kids lives, or just for not writing checks? If a check was missed, was it in the best interest of the child to keep seeing the father?

Society sends thousands, tends of thousands, of subtle messages to men every single day that spell out in no uncertain terms "you are not an important part of raising children". Then we wonder why men aren't stepping up.

I wrote about the subject at this sight on another thread here:

http://news.mensactivism.org/node/15600

Here is an excerpt:

African-Americans are caught in a terrible cycle.
Poor education and possibly time in prison for black males >> little opportunity>>poor personal choices such as risky sexual activity, drug use/addiction issues>>>children at a young age/no fathers in the household>>>poor parenting/move around a lot>>>children receive poor education >>>(cycle repeats)

[end of excerpt]

I went on to say that black men are being blamed somewhat unfairly, as they have been victims of the cycle themselves.

I also think slavery has influenced this. (What are we, about 7 generations away from slavery ?)

Slavery did not allow black men to be fathers as in the leaders and protectors of their families. Their children could be sold at any time, and their wives and daughters raped by slave owners. Since medical care did not extend to blacks I am sure they had more still births and infant fatalities. Slaves were disciplined by physical force and humiliation (this may explain why black parents are more likely to resort to whippings) . I would think this would be an emotional nightmare for a black male slave and probably prevented him from bonding with his children. Parenting styles tend to repeat with each generation.

I think Dr. Walter Williams has pointed out that illegitimacy was lower among blacks prior to the Great Society programs than during or after, even though blatant, legal discrimination and segregation were much worse. Black children were more likely to be born into families consisting of a married biological mother and father during Jim Crow days and even going back years before that as compared to the years during and after the Great Society. School dropout rates were also lower during the years prior to the Johnson administration. Welfare policies that pay women to have children without a man around don't do much to discourage illegitimacy. As is so often the case, well-intentioned "progressives" who believe in social engineering through intrusive government programs end up hurting the very people they are trying to help.

You bring up good points.

I am no history expert, so I admit I am only speculating, but I still say black slave fathers were probably not emotionally involved fathers for the reasons I stated above, even though they were married to the mothers.

Imagine in times of no birth control, children born into forced slavery, being a man but unable to protect your family, watching your children being sold, whipped, etc. I would imagine that a male slave father would learn to distant himself emotionally as a psychological survival mechanism. And the men were practically worked to death. (I imagine the life expectancy of a male slave was quite low) **

** I just googled the life expectancy of slaves. Mixed results but most sites indicate that half of all slave babies died during their first year. Life expectancy of male slave that survived childhood was anywhere from 23 to 30 years old (depending on the source). So it appears black slave fathers died young leaving women to care for children.

I beleive this is probably a contributing factor of why blacks have such a matriarchal culture still today (wether they are married or not to their children's mother).