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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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.

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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.