Yet again, I didn't say that the number of parents in a household has no effect on household income. I said that studies have shown than poverty level has far more to do with educational achievement than whether or not the home is a single-parent household. Do you not see the difference?
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Yet again, I didn't say that the number of parents in a household has no effect on household income. I said that studies have shown than poverty level has far more to do with educational achievement than whether or not the home is a single-parent household. Do you not see the difference?
Do you not see why a person in a single family house is much less likely to get an education? I just proved to you they have less income, now combine that with half the parenting time. Are you really naive enough to believe that half the parenting time, and half the income doesnt influence a childs education?
Once again, like i said earlier, you are stuck looking at all of the effects of a single parent household, and you are trying to dismiss the fact that the single parent household is the CAUSE of all these problems.
You didn't prove anything; you simply provided your preconceptions.
And, no, the single-parent household is not the CAUSE of all these problems.
Chew on this if you like:
Think white privilege doesn't exist in America? Consider just how much the color of a child's skin changes his or her odds of escaping poverty later in life.
Roughly 16 percent of white children born into the poorest one-fifth of U.S. families will rise to become a member of the top one-fifth by the time they turn 40 years old, according to a new study by Brookings Institution researchers for the Boston Federal Reserve.
Those are fairly bleak odds, but for poor black children the odds of making it to the top are even longer: Only 3 percent of black children born into the poorest one-fifth of families will ever make the leap to the top income group, according to the study.
Even if they don't always make it to the top of the income ladder, poor whites escape the worst forms of poverty more often than poor blacks. Only 23 percent of poor white children will still be counted among the poorest Americans when they turn 40, while a whopping 51 percent of poor black children will, the researchers found.
This chart shows the social mobility levels for white Americans. The horizontal axis shows where families start out on the income ladder, and the vertical axis shows the percentage of children from those families that end up at each income level by the age of 40.
As you can see, the poorest white Americans have a decent shot of ending up in a higher tier than their parents -- 58 percent of white children from the poorest families end up in one of the top three income brackets.
But for black Americans, escaping poverty is far more difficult:
Just 22 percent of the poorest black children manage to get into the top three income brackets by the time they are 40. And note that there aren't even enough black families in the top income bracket to do statistically significant analysis.
The findings in the paper, co-authored by Brookings economists Richard V. Reeves and Isabel V. Sawhill, run counter to the beliefs of some, like Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who argue that racism in this country has diminished to the point that white privilege no longer exists. O'Reilly visited The Daily Show last week and argued that any person, regardless of race, can get rich in America so long as they work hard.
But opportunities for success are clearly not that simple, for a host of reasons: The myriad legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, decades of racist housing policies,educational disparities, employment discrimination, and a race-fueled War on Drugs.
Where you start in life financially matters a lot, too: If you're born in the poorest 20 percent of families of any race, yet still earn a college degree, you have roughly the same chance of being stuck in the poorest bracket as rich high-school dropouts do of staying in the richest bracket (16 and 14 percent, respectively).
Upward mobility is a much harder climb than it would seem.
Kevin Short
Are you fucking insane? Surely you dont believe that a kid born in a single parent household has the same odds as 1 born with two parents? Surely at this point you are just fucking with me. I dont even think anyone on the LEFT would deny that single parent households struggle more. You are either being insane, or arguing just for the sake of it.
you could look at every statistic down the line for a kid growing up in a single parent household every single 1 will be worse, and id love for you to provide a supposed study from stanford that proves this wrong.
I assume you didn't read what I just posted, so why should I waste my time posting anything further?
There is nothing in the bullshit you posted that disputes the fact that a person in a single parent household has a lower chance of success, I already posted the data for that, and you keep trying to ignore it.
You posted a black vs white success rate, I posted the census data showing WHY there is a discrepancy.
What you posted has nothing to do with educational achievement, much less upward mobility.
FACTS?
My facts on black crime and incarceration came from the FBI. The FBI is NOT Fox News. How small is that brain of yours?
Who said ISIS jihadists invaded Texas? Not me ... Find a post to support your above statement and I'll send you $5000. Dumb shit --- someone else posted ISIS had crossed the border. Comprehendo so far? Please try to follow along. And all I did was cite a source with a link. Get it? And the source I posted is every bit as credible as Solon or Huff Post.
So once again rather than trying to debate with FACTS you deviate from the points and go off topic with some ISIS drivel. Whatever you need to try to save face when proven wrong once again.
Ah. Someone else posted it and you re-posted it, so you're not responsible. Even though you repeatedly insisted that it was all true.
Slick.
And Sylvia Van Peebles is as credible as HuffPost? If you like.
You're correct in your statement. The schools I've been at, with 95% of the kids getting free lunch due to income in the household, are highly single parent (or grandma or guardian) households. And teachers tell me that maybe 10% of the parents ever come to parent-teacher conferences. Contrast that to middle class parents who likely have a parents and often 2 incomes and take a more active role in their kids education. And not making this a racial thing but it's a sold fact that black kids have a father in the house about 25% of the time. So Mom, often with minimal education, is working at something low paying, the family receives assistance (food stamps, section 8 housing, Medicaid). Mom often has more kids than she can take care of. So Mom then doesn't have the time or energy to be attentive to the kids -- help them with homework. Two parent families don't have all these challenges.
It's highly correlated statistically that single parent families living in poverty end up with worse outcomes for their kids as far as educational achievement or likelihood of later criminal activity.