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Bad news from California
- Flemlord 19y agoMaybe he could spend a couple sermons on proper condom use instead of magic baby Jebus. Shout-out to all the unwed pregnant Latina hackers in Cali!
- petercooper 19y agoWhoever wrote that article could do with some lessons in tact. "The vaunted Latino family is coming to resemble the black family" and "The Latino family is not in such a dire state as the black family." Further on they qualify this with "poor black family" but in the more general quotes above, which "black family" are we talking about? The average one? Is the average "black family" really in a dire state?
- theoneill 19y agoWhoever wrote that article could do with some lessons in tact. The Economist doesn't have to be PC because they're not an American magazine. In principle they don't have to worry about offending local sensibilities any more than an American magazine writing about China. At least that's the official story....
- startingup 19y ago"The black family" refers to the typical black family. Given the number of kids born out of wedlock quoted in the article (71% of all black kids) this is a sound characterization. "The black family" does not mean "all black families" but only the average or median one. Sort of like the statement "the American middle-class family does not save enough for retirement" - again likely true in the average or median case.
- aston 19y agoNot sure what this has to do with hacker news, but it's about minorities, so I'm down. I found it odd that The Economist didn't really do any pondering on the economic part of these statistics. The out-of-wedlock birthrate is probably a lot stronger correlated with lack of money than race or culture.