Reflecting on The Moynihan Report

Sometimes the truth ain’t pretty. And we can’t ignore it or dismiss it just because we don’t like the messenger. Such was the case with the infamous Moynihan Report several decades ago. The report detailed what would become of the black community should the traditional black American family life continue to deteriorate. Columnist Clarence Page [...]

On Marriage, Motherhood and Moynihan

HT to Booker Rising for highlighting the following opinion piece by Clarence Page on marriage: Compared to 20 years ago, today’s mothers of newborns are older, more educated, less often white, more often Hispanic — and less often married. A record 41 percent of American births in 2008 were born to single mothers, according to [...]