http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will031415.php3

This post might be better suited to r/darkenlightenment, but it dovetails with a lot of issues raised here at TRP.

Basically, he's describing the research by Daniel Patrick Moynihan that showed that having a father in the home is more important to a child's success than the socioeconomic status of the family. George Will writes about DPM:

[Moynihan] would later write: \"A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority . . . that community asks for and gets chaos.\"

Academic sensitivity enforcers and race-mongers denounced him as a racist who was \"blaming the victim.\" Today, 72 percent of African American children are born to single women, 48 percent of first births of all races and ethnicities are to unmarried women, and more than 3 million mothers under 30 are not living with the fathers of their children.

The conventional wisdom was John F. Kennedy's cheerful expectation that a rising economic tide would lift all boats. America now knows that bad family structure defeats good economic numbers.

Today, a nation dismayed by inequality and the intergenerational transmission of poverty must face the truth that political scientist Lawrence Mead enunciated nearly 25 years ago: \"The inequalities that stem from the workplace are now trivial in comparison to those stemming from family structure. What matters for success is less whether your father was rich or poor than whether you knew your father at all.\"