Black communities need to start making it cool to be a dad and stick around...
Well, sure, and African American kids seem to be the biggest victims of this, but the outcomes are the same in every community where fathers are absent, it’s just that the African-American community has the highest percentage of out-of-wedlock births.
We need to bring back the concept of being ashamed. Society has eliminated it thinking that people do bad things because they feel bad about themselves, so let’s not make them feel bad about themselves. That’s like dealing with the problem of bad grades by never giving a grade below C regardless of the work or dealing with the problem of too many suspensions by not suspending people anymore regardless of their behavior.
The truth is, people do less bad things when they are ashamed to do them and society at large needs to look in shame upon people who do bad things. People should be ashamed of having kids out of wedlock. They should be ashamed of not supporting their kids. They should be ashamed of not living in the same household as their kids and actively raising them.
But, but, but- people will feel bad. There’s an easy way to avoid that- don’t do things that cause you to be ashamed.
And shepherds we shall be...
(Only the cool kids will get this)
Well, sure, and African American kids seem to be the biggest victims of this, but the outcomes are the same in every community where fathers are absent, it’s just that the African-American community has the highest percentage of out-of-wedlock births.
We need to bring back the concept of being ashamed. Society has eliminated it thinking that people do bad things because they feel bad about themselves, so let’s not make them feel bad about themselves. That’s like dealing with the problem of bad grades by never giving a grade below C regardless of the work or dealing with the problem of too many suspensions by not suspending people anymore regardless of their behavior.
The truth is, people do less bad things when they are ashamed to do them and society at large needs to look in shame upon people who do bad things. People should be ashamed of having kids out of wedlock. They should be ashamed of not supporting their kids. They should be ashamed of not living in the same household as their kids and actively raising them.
But, but, but- people will feel bad. There’s an easy way to avoid that- don’t do things that cause you to be ashamed.
The calls for it to stop are gonna come soon, theyÂ’re making their way west. Hendricks has seen a marked increase in serious violent crime here of late. Home invasion murder, and robbery shootings in the last two weeks alone. The more warehouses that go up, the more busses deposit folks that donÂ’t live here, to hangout after shift and walk around nearby subdivisions at night. Avon/Plainfield soccer moms arenÂ’t going to have it.