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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
What came first I wonder, the breakdown of the family unit or racist policies designed to destabilize minority populations and lower classes.
It's a real chicken and the egg argument.
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Good point.
Personally, I think family breakdown is a symptom of the problem, but not the root problem. One of the biggest reasons couples break up is due to financial issues, many of which can be traced to racial, class, ethnic and gender inequality(not all of course). And of course it's cyclical and some of it even self-inflicted (there is often backwards class mobility when parents who break the economic cycle stay in the same communities and raise their children in environments that hinder them).