Some identify slavery as the destruction of the black family. During this atrocity in American history, were not permitted formal marriages and the sacredness of our ties (and our bodies) were broken anytime the slave master wanted to have his way with the woman, girl or even our boys. Yet we still tried…though how difficult it must have been to be a man and endure the abuse of his woman and girls. How difficult it must have been to be a woman or a girl and live without the safety of a father’s, brothers husbands protection. Besides this, the selling and buying of black children during slavery further broke the bonds of familial ties.
Some suggest that feminism played a role in increasing single mother led households by suggesting that marriage or the nuclear family was male domination or patriarchy.
We have witnessed the intrusive policies of social welfare systems that promoted the single woman led homes. Additionally, poverty by way of jobs moving away from black dominated communities contributed to the deterioration of families as did criminal justice policies leading to mass incarceration.
There seems to be more systemic strategies that foster broken families within the black community than promote two parent households. While we can point out all the various attacks to the Black family, we as a community, yet do not promote marriage and family amongst ourselves although it is the single basic unit to all civilizations.
Therefore our children are beginning their lives with a broken foundation. They exit their front doors into broken communities and join up with other children with broken foundations.
We should want more and we should want better. There is no social program or policy that can contend with the benefit of a two parent household.
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