In 1965, future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), then an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration, issued a report expressing alarm at rising rates of unwed childbearing, especially among Black Americans. In the intervening nearly six decades, the situation among Black Americans and white Americans alike has only gotten worse, and the left-progressive movement that has risen in influence has challenged the very idea that marriage and family formation, at least on historical American lines, is even a good thing. Joining us to discuss this trend and its effects on American society is Delano Squires, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.

Links:

America Needs a “Black Wives Matter” Movement To Rebuild the Black Family

The Moynihan Report 50 Years Later: Why Marriage More Than Ever Promotes Opportunity for All

Society Suffers When Progressives Spurn Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family

Kids Get Schooled on Radical Politics

D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice

D.C. Area Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action

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