“About 13 percent of American men in this age group are not working, up from 5 percent in the late 1960′s. The difference represents 4 million men who would be working today if the employment rate had remained where it was in the 1950’s and 60′s.
“Most of these missing men are, like Mr. Beggerow, former blue-collar workers with no more than a high school education. But their ranks are growing at all education and income levels.”
“The missing men are also more likely to live alone. Nearly 60 percent are divorced, separated, widowed or never married, up from 50 percent a decade earlier. ‘What happens to a lot of guys who become unmoored from family life, they become unmoored from everything,’ Ms. Edin said. ‘They are just living without attachments and by the time they are 40 or 50 years old, the things that kept these men from falling away, family and community life, are gone.“
“Today, about 73 percent of women between 30 and 54 have a job, compared with 45 percent in the mid-1960’s.”
TheStateOf . . . Men. Manhood in America is teetering on a cliff. We in the black community especially know the horror of having weak men: the immaturity; the irresponsibility; the laziness. Rather than having equal opportunity, America has sought for men and women to become “identical,” which degrades the inner purpose of men, particularly the uneducated. Men have lost their role in the home as protector and provider, weakening the family, creating instablity and birthing the eternally single woman.
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