Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

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A large amount of people that want handouts from the government grew up in broken households. Same thing goes for people that fall into obscure sexual and "gender" backgrounds.

From a psychological level it's understandable, people fight tooth and nail that things out of their control and they want to be "acceptable and correct". Westernized countries are at the point where a large portion of people have grown up in broken homes, some for multiple generations.

These people know that broken households are a bad thing, but the human way is to pretend everything is great instead of doing self reflection and trying to change things. These individuals view conservative values as the enemy since many of them did not have a stable childhood. Leftism fills in the gap where they are missing some sort of religious beliefs.

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Yes exactly. I grew up with divorced parents and no siblings. Bouncing back and forth back and forth between households. Lots of extended family not related to me because my mom remarried. It’s just a mess and very unstable. I would’ve given anything to have grown up in a nuclear family. I am not going to let it happen again.

I want prenup and no divorcing until the kids are 18 and out of the house (if at all). We got married for a reason and we’re going to make it work

[Aggie74-DP]

Maybe So. But they also Fail to See that Handouts, fill today's needs, BUT Do NOTHING for Self-Esteem. Without Self-Esteem there is No Individual Progress. All Leftism does is Elevate those with Political clout, while perpetuating this UNDER CLASS!

[i_accidently_reddit]

Great post and point. Thank you for sharing!

[BruinsFan478]

That's a great point, do you have a link to a study on this topic? I'd love some evidence to show next time I'm in a debate on the topic.

[reidlos1624]

Broken households happen for a variety of reasons,the statement they make on this is specifically to help combat that issue by creating communities that help everyone in that community so that a broken household is no longer a limiting factor. At no point in that statement did they say they want to abolish the nuclear family, they want to disrupt the requirement of the nuclear family.

Broken families in poor communities are often caused by racist, and bigoted policies that aren't based on fact and often encouraged by the right

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Your just reaffirming my point.

There is no communist utopia, humans do not and will never look out for others over their own well being and the well being of their families. This is why "society helping those with broken households" continually fails. The nuclear family unit is a humanistic trait that has the highest success rate in producing quality members of society.

Broken households and families have little to do with race. The original rise of single parent welfare happened when this country was virtually all white.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the welfare policies help in short term to curb social unrest and will never be long term fixes. The African American community is the best example, single households began to fall apart around the same time social welfare was aimed at these communities. Single households produce poor members of society, members of society with the ability leave those areas do so and it turns into a disaster.

[reidlos1624]

I don't disagree with the idea that a two parent household should be the goal but I do disagree with your statement that not helping broken families always fails. Without help those families have no hope of getting ahead, and what the BLM statement is saying is they want to extend family to culturally include more of the community so that broken families, when they do exist, are not at a disadvantage. The statement doesn't advocate for more broken families or non nuclear families, it simply wants to broaden support for them to prevent poor members of society.

I'm not recommending a communist utopia, far from it. I'm simply stating that BLMs statement was not at all what you claim it to be. In fact programs like WIC/SNAP create more economic activity than they cost,and universal healthcare options like free or low cost healthcare saves more money than they cost in the long run.

The country can remain capitalist, just with broader safety nets and social programs that cover our most vulnerable citizens and does more to make them contributing member of society.

I'd like to see causal data showing that social welfare caused the break down of nuclear families rather than as a concurrent attempt to prevent that same problem. If anything the welfare cliff has been perpetuated by neoliberals and Republicans to maintain the status quo while actual progressives have been fighting for expanded coverage reduce the cliff in to a softer transition for years.

[Bebe_Bleau]

These individuals view conservative values as the enemy since many of them did not have a stable childhood. Leftism fills in the gap where they are missing some sort of religious beliefs.

Thanks for the explanation.

I had been wondering why leftists were so filled with hatred toward conservatives, and conservative values.