{"id":1520332,"date":"2022-06-17T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520332"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:50:18","slug":"leftist-organizations-decry-inequality-but-abandon-the-family-the-key-social-force-that-can-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-organizations-decry-inequality-but-abandon-the-family-the-key-social-force-that-can-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Organizations Decry Inequality, But Abandon The Family \u2013 The Key Social Force That Can Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftist-organizations-decry-inequality-but-abandon-the-family-the-key-social-force-that-can-fix-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520332&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the institutional Left has increasingly demanded \u201cracial equity\u201d \u2013 parity between races in everything from income to incarceration rates \u2013 it has simultaneously rejected the very thing that evidence suggests could move the needle most: encouraging households headed by two parents.<\/p>\n<p>Children raised by one parent, which is the case for a disproportionate number of minorities, are far more likely to break the law and grow up poor, data shows. And while liberals in the past, including President Clinton, have\u00a0lamented the breakdown of two-parent households, it is often embraced by modern leftist institutions such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200408020723\/https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/what-we-believe\/\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> which in 2020 called for \u201cdisrupt[ing] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it\u2019s like they\u2019re celebrating [single motherhood],\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/profile\/ian-rowe\/\">Ian Rowe<\/a>, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies upward mobility and family formation. \u201c[Liberals are] saying we should have systems that cater to this, rather than the government saying it\u2019s something to be avoided if possible. The government can never make up for what two married parents can provide for a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just Black Lives Matter that seems to reject the traditional family structure. Well-funded, elite institutions that have traditionally shaped policy from the Left advance the same position through their donations.\u00a0The Daily Wire analyzed the historical giving of seven of the nation\u2019s largest philanthropic foundations: the Ford Foundation; Open Society Foundations; Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation; MacArthur Foundation; W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; and Hewlett Foundation. All help set the agenda on social issues in America by steering billions of dollars to woke social groups and causes that see the government, not the family, as key to raising children.<\/p>\n<p>Philanthropic foundations like Ford and Kellogg were founded on a belief in social science, and that by studying how to impact human behavior, wealthy benefactors could make the world a better place. The foundations\u2019 admiration for the field is so great that four of the seven foundations jointly fund the Social Science Research Council, according to tax return data.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, they have made racial inequality a primary focus. When it comes to \u201cequity,\u201d \u201cinequity,\u201d and \u201cequality,\u201d there are nearly 6,000 grants totaling nearly $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>These dual priorities would seem to make encouraging intact families a natural fit: Few variables in social science so dramatically predict outcomes as the presence of two parents. Such positive outcomes would reduce racial inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the foundations have almost completely avoided the issue of family structure. Combined, the records showed $110 billion of giving across 131,000 donations. Almost none of it went to promoting marriage or fatherhood.<\/p>\n<p>Only 59 donations, totaling $8.7 million, dealt with fatherhood. And even among these, the largest grant recipient actually appeared to work against intact families, complaining about how delinquent dads were being inconvenienced by being forced to pay child support. The Ford Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordfoundation.org\/work\/our-grants\/grants-database\/grants-all?search=%26SearchText%3Dcenter%20for%20family%20policy&#038;page=0&#038;minyear=2006&#038;maxyear=2022\">tasked<\/a> the Center for Family Policy and Practice \u201cto analyze the impact of state and federal child-support policies and child-support debt on the ability of low-income, noncustodial fathers to achieve economic stability and build assets.\u201d This and a similar grant totaled about half a million dollars. Then Kellogg paid it another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkkf.org\/grants\/grant\/2015\/06\/making-all-the-ends-meet-a-two-generation-approach-for-children-and-their-mothers-and-fathers-p30319\">half-million<\/a> to \u201cinform policymakers\u201d of the research.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, foundations made at least a few grants that promoted fatherhood, such as one to the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization to \u201cexpand and replicate a fatherhood responsibility program in cities,\u201d and another to the Parent Resource Center to \u201cstrengthen parenting skills of high-risk teen fathers through participation in a 20-week group program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But by the 2000s, they appeared not just neutral but hostile to that line of thinking. In 2006, Ford paid $25,000 to a progressive think tank called Political Research Associates to write a pair of reports attacking the push for two-parent households. The first was titled \u201cPushed to the Altar: The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second belied a sensitivity to the fact that working against intact families contradicted a large body of work in a field that foundations ordinarily exalted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial science research is no more rigorous than the standards of the practitioners,\u201d it <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalresearch.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-10\/marriage-promotion-part-2.pdf\">said<\/a>. \u201cWhen those practitioners are using social science trappings to support their ideological positions, it is time for their flawed procedures to be exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two reports demonstrate the Right\u2019s use of federal funds to exert social control and their use of agenda driven treatises, masquerading as science, to justify, and elicit support for, this ideological maneuvering,\u201d it continued. \u201cThe rightist fatherhood movement relies on biased scholarship to support its assertion that a family is not complete without the presence of a father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said that people who argue that marriage leads to prosperity are violating a \u201cfundamental rule of social science\u201d by \u201cconfusing correlation with causality\u201d: One should not assume people are poor because of a lack of marriage when it could be that \u201cthey are unmarried because they are poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the institutional Left has increasingly demanded \u201cracial equity\u201d \u2013 parity between races when it comes to income and other measures like incarceration \u2013 it has simultaneously rejected the thing that evidence suggests could move the needle most: encouraging households headed by two parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1520337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}