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Gallagheralan2000, March 24, 2008

This was and is a great and necessary book. In the 1960s, the illegitimacy rate for Black Americans was 20%--then a national disaster--and 2 % for white. Now it is 20% for whites, and 70-80% for Blacks, 40% for Hispanics, a national average of 34%. Federal/state programs to help have harmed, assisting family disintegration. Illegitimacy cascades from single parent (or no parent) households to delinquency, school failures and dropout, crime and jail/prison population which grow and grow. It is, in Murray's words, "...the single most important social problem of our time...."
This is an essential book, along with Dr. Bill Cosby's recent efforts to draw attention to this still-taboo problem, which cultural "advocates" praise rather than cure. This is a national problem, not a white, Black, or Hispanic problem. Murray and Cosby are the truth-tellers and risk-takers, to whom we must listen.

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