The privilege that dare not speak its name

[PeteS in CA]

The privilege that dare not speak its name

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/09/14/the-privilege-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-n578121

NY Times opinion columnist Nikolas Kristof wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting something that is undeniably true but which we doesn’t get talked about anymore. Children who grow up with two-parents do significantly better in life. Kristof also takes on the reason why liberals don’t want to talk about this:

Families headed by single mothers are five times as likely to live in poverty as married-couple families.

Children in single-mother homes are less likely to graduate from high school or earn a college degree. They are more likely to become single parents themselves, perpetuating the cycle.

Almost 30 percent of American children now live with a single parent or with no parent at all. One reason for the sensitivities is large racial disparities: Single parenting is less common in white and Asian households, but only 38 percent of Black children live with married parents.
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But progressives are actively counterproductive about this issue both because of the racial element inherent in discussing it and because they actually believe the nuclear family should be dismantled. Kristof cites this 2021 webinar titled “Toward Dismantling Family Privilege and White Supremacy in Family Science.”

Like White privilege, family privilege is an unacknowledged and unearned benefit instantiated in U.S. laws, policies, and practices and bestowed upon traditional or “standard” nuclear families to the disadvantage of non-traditional configured family systems (e.g., sole-parent families, unmarried committed partners rearing children together, grandparents raising grandchildren). Family privilege is defined as the benefits, often invisible and unacknowledged, that one receives by belonging to family systems long upheld in society as superior to all others. It serves to advantage certain family forms over others and is typically bestowed upon White, traditional nuclear families.

This "Family Privilege" was news in the 70s. It's "news" now, because nothing was learned and academia is revolting against this common-sense reality.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Surprising coming from an inveterate lefty like Kristof.

Where he nails it is in pointing out that a lot of leftists/progressives want to dismantle the two parent family structure precisely to eliminate the advantage children statistically have.

[goatprairie]

Many liberal people know the value of two parent families over single parents. But again the tail, the far left, is wagging the dog.
The far left hates America and the old-fashioned two parent family with a father and a mother. The radical feminists hated men, so they had to promulgate the myth that men are not needed to raise children. I read an appreciable amount of feminist literature back in my college days, and the hatred of men and father and mother families was palpable.
Of course, two parent families (father and mother) are far superior to single parent families on average. But some people (the usual suspects) don't want to acknowledge that for ideological reasons.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

The second you bring up the stats on two parent families, you're labeled a racist.

One of my favorite leftist/racial talking points is their claim that "white people are afraid to have an honest conversation about race.". Had that card played on me before, so I said "sure, let's have an honest conversation about race!"

[Kamaji]

The second you bring up the stats on two parent families, you're labeled a racist.

One of my favorite leftist/racial talking points is their claim that "white people are afraid to have an honest conversation about race.". Had that card played on me before, so I said "sure, let's have an honest conversation about race!"