In 1965, then-Assistant Secretary of Labor (later US Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the alarm in his report on the state of the black American family. Black families, he noted, had a far higher proportion of children born to single mothers (24 percent at the time) than white families (3 percent), a higher proportion of families headed by women (21 percent compared to 9 percent), and a higher rate of divorce (5.1 percent compared to 3.6 percent). Moynihan cited research showing that children growing up in one-parent homes performed worse in school and were more likely to be arrested.
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