As of 1960, almost 100 years after slavery ended, the majority of Black kids were being raised in two-parent households. But within one generation after the welfare state, that dropped to a minority. When you think about it, centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow did not destroy the Black family, but one generation of the welfare state did.
— Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge: Wealth, Poverty, and Politics (Robinson) (2015)
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