Why are black women not mobilizing against single motherhood? (drugs, statistics, lobby)
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I simply do not understand why there hasn't been a political platform set up to address the pervasive issue of single motherhood amongst black women. Black women should not wait for the government to save them. Surely, if that were going to happen, it would have already taken place. More, simply need to organize around this platform and reach out to the masses of young black women who are being socially conditioned to accept the notion that raising children alone, without a father's involvement is fine.
"Statistics show [that] children of unmarried mothers...are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock...
I just do not forsee any changes occuring, until black women collectively organize, to address this issue. I can't however understand why so many of us continue to sing the praises of black single motherhood, when it's a well known fact that black children (as an aggregate group) are not thriving under these circumstances.
I do not want this thread to be an attack on black single mothers. I'm just trying to figure out why there hasn't been an active campaign (by married black women) to speak out against this sort of behavior?
Outside of the fact that they might be too busy dealing with the problem as it exists, your question might be more appropriately answered by asking your question on a forum where there are significant numbers of black women? Just a thought.
(always puzzles me why people raise these questions on predominately white discussion forums when there are plenty of forums that African Americans actually frequent)
Outside of the fact that they might be too busy dealing with the problem as it exists, your question might be more appropriately answered by asking your question on a forum where there are significant numbers of black women? Just a thought.
(always puzzles me why people raise these questions on predominately white discussion forums when there are plenty of forums that African Americans actually frequent)
There are a sizable number of black women on this forum.
Yes, but as a married black woman, I feel like some sort of platform has to be created, to break the cycle.
Fine, I'm all for it. I'm all for black organizations doing a number of things to end negative acts by other African Americans, I just see no point of raising the issue where the target audience is absent. Perhaps if you raise the question in the right venue you might find that there are people working on the problem and provide you with ways to help their efforts.
Because I don't think hardly anyone wants to be cruel enough take a child away from any good single mother to meet their ideas how a child should be raised.
Fine, I'm all for it. I'm all for black organizations doing a number of things to end negative acts by other African Americans, I just see no point of raising the issue where the target audience is absent. Perhaps if you raise the question in the right venue you might find that there are people working on the problem and provide you with ways to help their efforts.
As I've already mentioned, there's a number of black women who are members of this forum.
Because I don't think hardly anyone wants to take a child away from any good single mother to meet their ideas how a child should be raised.
No, I'm not advocating that any child be taken away from his/her family. I'm trying to understand why more black women who are married, haven't mobilized to be an advocate of two-parent homes. It appears that there's only one voice that's currently being heard, and that's the voice of single moms, not the voice of happily married black women.
There appears to be lobby groups set up for almost every political, religious and/or social group, but I haven't been able to identify one single group that lobby's on behalf of the vitality and upward mobility of black American women.
If such a group existed, I'm sure they would have taken on single motherhood.
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