Some Good News About Black Families

12:03 pm EST December 17th, 2008 | News | 8 Comments

Woot.

The number of black children being raised by two parents appears to be edging higher than at any time in a generation, at nearly 40 percent, according to newly released census data.

Demographers said such a trend might be partly attributable to the growing proportion of immigrants in the nation’s black population. It may have been driven, too, by the values of an emerging black middle class, a trend that could be jeopardized by the current economic meltdown.

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8 Responses to “Some Good News About Black Families”

  1. Robert says:
    December 17, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    I wonder if they’d count my two sons. Although their parents are married (twice, actually; once by a Baptist minister, once by a UCC minister), the Federal government doesn’t recognize us as a married couple.

  2. Jay Tea says:
    December 17, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    This is, indeed, good news.

    May you burn in Hell, Lyndon Johnson, for what your social programs did to America’s families — especially the poor and black ones.

    J.

  3. ed says:
    December 17, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    J–

    Your faux indignation isn’t making it. You should stop. It’s embarrassing.

  4. Parthenon says:
    December 17, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Great news. Here’s hoping it continues. Is this a distinctly black problem though? Plenty of kids in general in single parent homes (myself included, when I was a kid), aren’t there?

  5. Tim Fuller says:
    December 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Unless something has changed, poor whites take a predominate amount of welfare money, though you hardly ever hear anything about that, and when you do, you get the impression that they must all live in Appalachia.

    Enjoy.

  6. Bruce Henry says:
    December 17, 2008 at 6:07 pm

    If there is a hell, and if LBJ is burning there, it’s not for the Great Society (we can argue about the results but not that the intent was sincere). It would be for Vietnam.
    But if LBJ is burning, so is Nixon, and all their enablers.

  7. Randy Brown says:
    December 17, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Suck mine too, Jackass Turd.

    Sorry, OW et. al. But somebody HAS to say that.

  8. fafaroo says:
    December 17, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    You should stop. It’s embarrassing.”

    It should be obvious by now that Jay Tea has long since packed away concepts such as embarrassment or shame.

    Related, I can’t wait to hear the argument that both blames Democrats and minorities for the sub-prime meltdown while giving credit to Bush for the expansion of the black middle class.