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unnecessarily full-quoted:

There is a sizeable portion of the black american community where the
father is not in evidence,

There is also a very sizeable American Black community where the
father is VERY present

Make up your mind.

That's a good example of double-speak you've got going there.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/...19185720070614

Father absence "decimates" black community in U.S.

By Joyce Kelly

CHICAGO Thu Jun 14, 2007

More than 19 million children -- about one in four -- were living in
households where no father, biological or other, was present, according
to a Census Bureau report in 2005.

The statistics also show that this burden falls more heavily on black
children. Some 56 percent of black children lived in single-parent
families in 2004, with most of those families headed by mothers. That
figure compared with 22 percent of white children and 31 percent of
Hispanic children.
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Not much has changed lately for blacks, but what has gotten worse is
that in general, even more US children don't have a father (at least not
a father that's raising them as part of a family unit):

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Dec 25 / 2012

Fifteen million U.S. children, or 1 in 3, live without a father,

Though income is the primary predictor, the lack of live-in fathers also
is overwhelmingly a black problem, regardless of poverty status, census
data show. Among blacks, nearly 5 million children, or 54 percent, live
with only their mother.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...rica/?page=all
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And now I'll conclude with this happy report:

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The Black Family Is Worse Off Today Than In the 1960's

March, 2013

A new report released by the Urban Institute finds that the
African-American family has declined across almost every measure since
the 1960's.

According to a report released by the Urban Institute, the state of the
African-American family is worse today than it was in the 1960's. Before
you become offended and charge, “What about the White family?!” The
report also discloses that families of all ethnicities are showing a
decline; however, the African-American household has suffered the worst
decline. Plus, YourBlackWorld.com offers you news specifically about
the state of Black America, so, our focus will be on the state of the
African-American family.

In 1950, 17 percent of African-American children lived in a home with
their mother but not their father. By 2010 that had increased to 50
percent. In 1965, only eight percent of childbirths in the Black
community occurred out-of-wedlock. In 2010 that figure was 41 percent;
and today, the out-of-wedlock childbirth in the Black community sits at
an astonishing 72 percent. The number of African-American women married
and living with their spouse was recorded as 53 percent in 1950. By
2010, it had dropped to 25 percent.

The original report titled “The Negro Family: The Case for National
Action,” was released in 1965 by the late New York Sen. Daniel Moynihan.
Moynihan, who was the assistant labor secretary at the time of the
report’s release, laid out a series of statistics on the
African-American family. Moynihan, in his report’s conclusion declared,
“at the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the
deterioration of the Negro family. It is the fundamental source of the
weakness of the Negro community at the present time.” Sadly, the outlook
of the African-American family is more bleak than when Moynihan wrote
his conclusion.

“An analysis of national data indicates that little progress has been
made on the key issues Moynihan identified,” wrote Gregory Acs, of the
Urban Institute, in a statement released with the report. “Further, many
of the issues he identified for Black families are now prevalent among
other families.” The Urban Institute’s report also added to the original
scope of the Moynihan report to include the rate of incarceration,
employment, and educational attainment in the African-American
community. “Since the Moynihan report was released, another major social
trend has put further strains on Black families — the mass incarceration
of Black men,” Acs said. “By 2010, about one out of every six Black men
had spent some time in prison, compared with about 1 out of 33 white
men.”

A demographic breakdown by race was not available for the 1965 report,
but numbers beginning in 1974 showed disproportionate numbers of
African-American men being sent to prison. In 1974, it was nine percent
of Black men compared to one percent of white men. By 2010, that had
risen to 16 percent of Black men and three percent of white men. The
report did note that number has started to decline slightly among Black
men.

http://www.yourblackworld.net/2013/0...-report-shows/
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Happy Father's Day to you, Mr. Cosby.