Moms

The unintended consequences of good intentions is an aptly named phrase that usually pops up when people try to help those in need. Here is one example of the results of the Great Society that was part of the civil rights movement of 1965. The single-mother revolution shouldn’t need much introduction. It started in the 1960s when the nation began to sever the historical connection between marriage and childbearing and to turn single motherhood and the fatherless family into a viable, even welcome, arrangement for children and for society. It shows less than 20 percent of black babies in the 1950s were born to single mothers and that rose to 72.3 percent in 2008. One of the reasons I voted for Bill Clinton was he said that welfare should be a helping hand and not a way of life. Any young single mom deserves a helping hand but when a girl has a baby at 16, and her mother had her when mom was 16 and grandma had mom when she was 16 it has become a way of life. This is not helping these young women. We can do better.