America's Lost Boys and Me(bariweiss.substack.com) |
America's Lost Boys and Me(bariweiss.substack.com) |
Most of the people espousing this view raise children with the economic and social benefits of intact, stable families.
Indent the line by a few spaces.If anything, publicly espousing conservative viewpoints are the "luxury beliefs".
The majority of poor minorities living in high crime areas don't and never supported defunding the police.
They want police to be less racist.
When you have bullets flying through the window of your childs room from drive by shootings, and drug dealers peddling outside your house, defunding the police is an alien concept.
It sounds a lot nicer from a safe suburban neighborhood.
But the data tells quite a different story. Poverty, even extreme poverty, is surmountable. What is nearly impossible to overcome is the instability—the psychological havoc—created by broken homes. Especially for boys. Research in psychology and economics shows that childhood instability has much a stronger effect than parental socioeconomic status for a variety of important outcomes, including education.