Mais sobre os efeitos do "bolsa-família" americano

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Job Loss Didn’t Make the Underclass - John McWorther



Num dos diálogos dele com o Glenn Loury no bloggingheads ele mencionou algo como que, o welfare aumentou significativamente o número de mães solteiras e coisas do tipo, algo como de 30% para 70% dentre as mulheres negras, acho (parece que tinha qualquer vantagem para o pai solteiro também, não lembro), mas ainda não achei nada em texto.

Estou postando isso como uma espécie de nota. Assisti há algum tempo, pensei no dia em procurar algo a respeito para postar, mas não deu tempo, e fui esquecendo. Então fica esse "embrião" aqui, para não esquecer de vez. Eventualmente eu acho algo mais concreto ou alguém acha.



Achei algo mais, ainda que o site possivelmente não seja dos melhores:




McWhorter observes that the high proportion of single parent families among blacks is a relatively new development, and not something that can be attributed to some amorphous “legacy of slavery.”

“In poor black areas of Chicago during the 1920s, it was considered a problem that 15 percent of births were out of wedlock. Once the Depression hit, that number went down to under 10 percent. Women who had several children by different men were marginal types. And men at that time worked at jobs that immigrants have since filled.”

McWhorter connects the dots between the changes in welfare rules of the 1960s and the changes in norms of sexual and family behavior at the same time. Both, in his view, were devastating.

“In New York City at this time, welfare commissioner Mitchell Ginsberg.... pushed caseworkers to recruit new recipients and abolished screening requirements like interviews and home inspections. Until 1961, national welfare rules assumed that wherever a father could be identified, he ought to be expected to provide support. Between 1961 and 1968 that was relaxed....

“Bureaucrats went courting recipients, unconcerned with when, or even whether, they became independent again. The nation's welfare rolls exploded, jumping from 4.7 million to 9.7 million between 1966 and 1970 alone.\.... Between 1964 and 1976, the number of black children born to single mothers doubled. By 1995, more than three quarters of black youngsters were born out of wedlock.\... And that badly injured the next generation. Among black children living with two parents, poverty rates plunged from 61% in 1959 to just 13% in 1995, marking incredible progress. By that time, most black families were no longer living below the poverty line. Yet that same year, the poverty rate among black kids being raised by single women was fully 62%.”

So in the name of “social justice,” meaning income transfer to blacks, marriage became marginalized within the black community. And this pushing marriage to the margins of black society had devastating consequences for the economic and social well-being of blacks.

http://www.acton.org/commentary/commentary_316.php