CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
And what do you think the root of this is?
You do know up until the late 60s Black women were the most married. I’ll take it easy with you for now…bit I can go into that details. And you want like that.
"1970 Black Women & Men Debate Their Relationships On TV - Pre Oprah Winfrey"
"CBS Reports: The Vanishing Family - Crisis In Black America (1986)".
"Lesbian mothers helped create a foundation of single parent families which challenged the gendered stereotypes of motherhood and hood. They helped single mothers liberate themselves from the constrictions of the traditional nuclear family with its built-in heteronormativity. […] In Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, Benita Roth explains how the history of racism in the U.S. played an important part in creating this divide. Instead of arguing about a woman’s right NOT to bear a child, these minority women focused on how to combine motherhood with feminism and equality. They wanted to change the assumption that single motherhood was a pathology and/or a punishment. Single mothers of all ethnicities could relate to this conversation. […]."
(Elizabeth Ryan, "Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation,Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation In The 1970s, (2015), Wayne State University Dissertations.1409)
If the men were there, and being providers, this wouldn’t have happened.
Black women did not decide to be single mothers one day. If the fathers of their children wanted to marry them, they would marry those men. Too many black women chose the wrong man, who probably wasn’t responsible before she got pregnant, but she thought a baby would change him. This is where black women lack accountability.
In current times, there is no excuse for the high numbers of out of wedlock births. This isn’t to say the men aren’t still involved, but a two parent household is ideal. I do not co-sign the belief that black people are children who are told how to live, and can’t figure out the difference between right and wrong. We keep blaming everyone else for our problems, when we are most influenced by what is happening in our own homes, and surroundings, which are dominated by other black people.