Transcript of my post: (with a word or two adjustment for clarity) Jon Rose Oh boy where do I start: Ok let's start with the "nuclear family": First: marriage, as a social structure is pretty bullshit to begin with -- and always has been. Divorce rates haven't so much gone up, it's more a woman can live without a husband and actually has more of a choice in the matter. Hell there are still plenty of loveless marriages abound in America alone. Regardless the divorce rates in the US have actually been dropping for four decades or so, it's more so that Millennials (and I suspect Gen Z as well will do the same) have been postponing getting married due to lack of a secure economic future. Divorce is almost completely concentrated among the poorer lower and lower middle-class households. Rich divorces get the headlines but lower income families have the most divorce rates. Even more so people with bachelor-degrees or higher tend to remain married while college degree-less couples are more likely to get divorced. Furthermore those that wait longer before getting married are statistically less likely to get divorced. https://timeline.com/divorce-rates-going-down-d85477f83055 Regardless however I'd argue a rising divorce rates aren't the worst thing in the world. It's almost certainly more of a sign that people aren't stuck in unhappy, unwell marriages due to economic or social pressure. Onto the 40% of X, X, X, X are blacks bullshit: Wrong. 40% of people arrested for those things are black. That doesn't mean they were actually convicted of said crime. Furthermore higher poverty rates among various urban black communities might explain the difference in crime rates -- something that was engendered by white people. Ever heard of redlining? https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-americans-commit-crime Crash course in redlining: Most middle-class suburbs are predominately white -- by design. The suburbs were literally built around giving loans to wealthy white areas and refusing to give them to black areas -- a practice called, you guessed it, redlining. Generationally, this destroyed the ability for [black] families to build wealth. White families bought homes, built wealth, sold homes, bought bigger ones, as wealth went up, these families got more businesses. More businesses made [white] families more wealthier. More wealth also allowed property taxes to go up -- interestingly property taxes are the main funding of schools. Richer white areas got better schools. Hell In order to build the very suburbs white people evicted and bulldozed black neighborhoods. Literally kicked out black people and destroyed their homes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR9qrVS17g#action=share
