I don’t disagree.
But I sometimes feel like we have discourse about “woulda/coulda/shoulda” scenarios for the future, without seeing shyt for what it is. We can talk about how great our community would be if there were more two parent households, less single parenting, less poor mate choosing, but we also have to be grounded in reality.
If we understand that this has been an ongoing issue for years, and has not gotten better, no matter the discourse on the need for more two parent homes, then we have to also work from the frame of mind that things likely are not going to just randomly go from mostly single parent households to majority two parent households without major, major reset and there are no signs or work even being done for that reset to even occur at a large scale across our community.
Our current reality is this: our community has a low marriage rate, high divorce rate, and high single parent rate. We can acknowledge what ideally would need to happen to build more families and strong communities, but again acknowledging it alone has not and is not offsetting any of the issues in our community. At this point it’s just talk.
And ultimately what control do you have over others choosing to not marry or marry, and have children or not have children? we cannot force people to marry or not have kids in single parent households. We don’t have that power.
We cannot force traditional households especially in a society where a man with a dikk is now called a woman, non traditional marriage is a thing (gay marriage is talked about in schools and really everywhere now) single parenting has become very normalized for black women and men, atheism is on the rise and religion is on the decline(religion was a huge contributor to people marrying).
I think at this point trying to address the reality with solutions to deal with things as they currently are is going to make more of a difference than talking about what we wish would happen but can’t make happen.