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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (134974)	7/25/2013 11:11:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Its not just about values. Everywhere these kids turn its a mess.......their parents, the projects, the neighborhoods and the schools. There is nothing for them to hang onto except gangs. The only way you stop it is to pick one of those venues and pour a ton of money into it. The cheapest way would be the schools........makes the schools as good as those in any affluent suburb and then make the parents sign a contract, the violation of which would have consequences. Your heart is in the right place IMHO , but I think a lot of what you say has to come after we put in place policies that break up the incentive to marry a welfare check instead of a husband. Its not just about the money. If was just about money, then the solution would be a lot simpler. There is psychological damage that results from all the years of slavery and discrimination. Just like alcoholics pass down their dysfunction to their offspring, so does generation after generation of former black slaves pass down their dysfunction. To interrupt the dysfunction and stop the cycle of poverty, you need to get them when they are young and provide them with reasonable alternatives. Once woman have to get married in order to successfully raise thier kids it will encourage more family stability and elevate the status of working class men and give them a 'role' in society. This won't solve all problems, but it would be a start. There are a lot of unmarried white women with children......there is not the level of dysfunction and poverty among these women like there is in the black community.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (134974)	7/26/2013 11:51:54 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Poverty Hurts Kids More Than Being Born to Moms on Cocaine Emily Badger Jul 23, 2013 4 Comments In 1989, nearly one in six babies born in Philadelphia city hospitals had mothers who tested positive for cocaine. At the time, Susan FitzGerald writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer, screaming headlines warned that pretty terrible things would happen to those babies: They'd grow up with lower IQs, with faulty brain development, with permanent disabilities. They'd inevitably become addicts themselves. This was in the midst of the crack epidemic, when it looked as if an entire generation of children in some cities might be born with problems that would follow them for life. In the 25 years since then, researchers in Philadelphia have been performing one of the longest-running studies on what really happens to these babies as they grow up. FitzGerald, who has written about the study over the year, covers its staggering conclusion this week: The researchers consistently found no significant differences between the cocaine-exposed children and the controls. At age 4, for instance, the average IQ of the cocaine-exposed children was 79.0 and the average IQ for the nonexposed children was 81.9. Both numbers are well below the average of 90 to 109 for U.S. children in the same age group. When it came to school readiness at age 6, about 25 percent of children in each group scored in the abnormal range on tests for math and letter and word recognition. "We went looking for the effects of cocaine," [researcher Hallam] Hurt said. But after a time "we began to ask, 'Was there something else going on?' " While the cocaine-exposed children and a group of nonexposed controls performed about the same on tests, both groups lagged on developmental and intellectual measures compared to the norm. Hurt and her team began to think the "something else" was poverty. This doesn't mean that cocaine, in utero, does nothing to kids. But it does mean we may want to change how we think about how potent poverty is. theatlanticcities.com