Meta- I think I know what she is trying to say, as I said something similar years ago, though mine was not dependent on race, or being single, but on dysfunction coupled with poverty.
I suggested that either we needed support for very poor dysfunctional families (of all colors) that involved a network of medical, social services (including nutrition and parental counseling), preschool and school services OR we needed to remove children from homes rife with danger and neglect and put them in homes where they could flourish, attain the potential which they were born with, and break the cycle of poverty and dysfunction in to which they were born. It's not dependent on color- it's dependent on poverty COUPLED with dysfunction. There are poor people who are perfectly functional, and who will, in time, work their way out of poverty, or at least free their children from poverty. And then there are families trapped in generational cycels- these are the people who it is most difficult to help, because society doesn't have the will to do what is needed, and the people themselves seem to be unable to free themselves. |
