Is There a Crack Epidemic in the Black Community?

In the 1960s, 20 years before we've got crack on the street, US states are denying aid to families. Social policy may have inadvertently contributed to the decline in marriage during the 1960s. The single mothers suspected of living with a man were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1968. Even under the revised welfare policy, poor couples had an incentive to co-have it instead of Mary in order to maintain welfare eligibility. And this is one of the things that crack gets blamed for is the destruction of the black family.