🔍How government meddling DESTROYS American families

X users backed by Elon Musk have reignited the debate on the reasons for the breakdown of American families.

In 1960, before the start LBJ’s Great Society reforms, 22% of black children were being raised in single-parent households. That number more than doubled to 49.7% by 2023, with over 70% of black children born to unwed mothers.

“Why? Because welfare pays more to single mothers than married ones, encourages more out-of-wedlock births, and the rise of fatherless children leads to men and women who do not pursue a nuclear family of their own,” a chart commented on by Musk suggested.

🟠Single parent households have been on the rise across demographic groups, although none so drastically as in the black community. Among all households, 9% of children lived with one parent in 1960, while today that number is 25%, or 18M children, 42% of them in poverty, per the Census Bureau.

What are the factors behind this trend?

🟠Welfare’s “marriage penalty,” including cuts to or elimination of benefits if a partner is present.

🟠Disincentivization of two-parent households created by aid programs.

🟠Deindustrialization and mass job loss among American men from the 70s on thanks to neoliberal reforms, reducing marriage prospects.

🟠The wars on drugs of the 70s and 80s, and Joe Biden’s 1994 Crime Bill, which led to the mass incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders, predominantly black men.

🟠Trump worked to partially reverse the consequences of the latter policies in 2018 with the First Step Act criminal justice reforms. This got him considerable support among African Americans, winning 8% support in 2016, and 20% in 2024, more than any GOP candidate in the modern era.

🟠Biden’s presidency made things worse. His earned income tax credit (EITC) expansion for low-income families added major marriage penalties and divorce bonuses, per the Tax Policy Institute.

🟠Furthermore, the $1.8 trln American Families Plan exacerbated penalties for higher-income married couples who filed taxes jointly.

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