9.5% of Families in the United States are below the poverty threshold. The rate ranges from 8.6% for Asians to 17.1% for Blacks [1].
Government data reporting, which may perversely be influenced by political agendas, obscures the root causes of poverty. Here we'll pull the covers back.
It takes only a tiny bit of analysis to disclose that the primary factor for poverty is households headed by a female with no spouse present. For Asians only 10% of Families are in households headed by a female with no spouse present, while for Blacks the rate is 40%. Hands-down, resolution of this one factor alone would have an overwhelming impact on the poverty rate for Blacks, bringing the Black family poverty rate down to the rate of the general population. That's what this topic addresses.
Perhaps it was well intended, but the unintended consequence of the Government Welfare program is to drive fathers out of the home. With fathers out of the home the physical and emotional support, stability, security, task-sharing and complementary skills of the one man/one woman Family root are lost. This oversight must be fixed - NOW.
Whether married to the mother or not, Fathers must be held accountable to share support of the children they fathered. By exempting Fathers from child support if they were not married to the mother, politicians gave fathers an "out" to avoid responsibility. In whatever twisted thinking that prevailed, the politicians figured that the Taxpayer could take the responsibility. So now we find ourselves with millions of Taxpayer-supported children.
More importantly, however, is that American children need the nurturing of loving parents - both their mother and father - to provide the environment that will End Generational Poverty (see next topic).
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