Do children need day-care or daddy-care?
If Democrats want to wag a finger this week, get all the men in a room and demand that they mentor and cajole young men about their responsibilities and to marry the mother of their children. And if you are divorced and can't take care of your first family, don't start a second. Even if the new wife or girlfriend nags. Barack Obama essentially did this during the primaries, and so did several other black leaders. I may not like his politics but he is a good role model for young men. But when the numbers are crunched, it will show that women contribute to poverty when they don't marry the fathers of their children and have babies before finishing high school. Feminists on the left need to report this instead of blaming President Bush, or men in general. Birth control? Just Say No, my sister.These media poverty stories never change. Even though we can all look around and see an incredible difference between 2008 and 1988 or 1958, in the news it is always the same--doom and gloom. No opportunity. No jobs. Hunger. Hopelessness. It's extremely political, and if I were a Democrat, I'd be ashamed that none of the "hope and change" programs we promised in the past have made any difference. Except that one in the mid-1990s under President Clinton, when welfare was cleaned up. Oops. He was forced into that one by Republicans, and the left was fighting mad. But that is his legacy. Millions of women grabbed hold and became energized tax payers, developed a back bone and showed that old American spirit. Obama will try to change that if he becomes President by sneaking in reinforcements to keep women with a step-daddy in the house named "Uncle Sam." Universal pre-school? One more way to get more taxes and more control and show no gains. Universal pre-school will create more feel-good programs, a demand for more taxes to fight poverty, more low-income jobs to be administered by educators, and more reasons for mothers to get into the labor force. Head Start is over 40 years old--no gains beyond the early years of elementary school.
Take away: The poverty gap is no longer racial, it is marital.
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It takes two incomes these days for most folks to make ends meet. Divorced and unmarried folks are at a disadvantage. If you have to work undesirable hours and two at minimum wage-- there isn't a whole lot of time to help Jill with reading or Jack with math. Education isn't going to get better no matter how much money we pour in, until parents start taking an active role in their children's educations.
This is why charters/alternatives can make a difference. The parents that care and make time for their kids will take students out of poor schools and send them to an alternative. This creates a "care" drain for the remaining kids at crummy school, but parents who don't want to take the time (or can't) won't notice. Who will stand up for these kids? Democrats?
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