Ar excellent article in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution, by Senator Sam Brownback and Hampton University Psychology Professor Linda Malone-Colon.
A war over the family divided liberals and conservatives in the last several decades. Now is the time to end that war and come together for a nationally urgent and common cause. With 40 percent of children born to unwed mothers today, and a growing marriage gap between wealthy and poor, we can’t afford to go on pretending that strengthening marriage is a conservative or liberal cause….
One of the most important actions we can take to ensure greater equality of opportunity is to strengthen marriage. Read more…
Question: What percentage of African American adults (aged 20-54) were married in 1970 and in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available? Read more…
Race and Abortion: a series of billboards in the Atlanta area call attention to the connection between abortion and race. I talk about those billboards in this interview on Issues Etc, on Lutheran Public Radio.
I recently asked a black pastor friend of mine to consider this hypothetical question: Where do you think the black community would be today, if the Sexual Revolution had not happened at the same time as the Civil Rights movement of the 1960′s? Think about it: a functioning African American family, black men inside the family, collaborating with their wives to raise their children together, as they had done for generations, but doing all that in the post-segregation era.
Now the CDC offers this report on another facet of the sexual revolution that hits blacks disporportionately: Read more…
February 15th, 2010
Betsy
Not long ago the Ruth Institute did a poll on the leading cause of death among African Americans. The correct answer, you got it: abortion, by far. Clearly, according to this FOX news article, Ruth is not the only one who has noticed.
ATLANTA — The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.”
The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the “Too Many Aborted” campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country. Read more…
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