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Chicago?s real crime story: Loss of two-parent families

By Alliance Alert

City Journal: "Throughout his four years working for 'change' in Chicago?s Roseland and Altgeld Gardens neighborhoods, Obama ignored the primary cause of their escalating dysfunction: the disappearance of the black two-parent family . . . [T]he would-be reformers [did not] mention the all-important fact that a staggering 75 percent of Chicago?s black children were being born out of wedlock. The sky-high illegitimacy rate meant that black boys were growing up in a world in which it was normal to impregnate a girl and then take off. When a boy is raised without any social expectation that he will support his children and marry his children?s mother, he fails to learn the most fundamental lesson of personal responsibility. The high black crime rate was one result of a culture that fails to civilize men through marriage."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).