A new urban flight causing problems in Detroit.

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

What has that got to do with the price of cheese?
Oh yeah....."So I'm not talking about people who have their situation change"
So given the actual topic..... Are you aware of what percentage of marriages in the US end in divorce?

It has a lot to do with the entire discussion since we went on a (typical) tangent. The bulk of "urban" family units have no father around. The US divorce rate is between 40-50% over a marriage. That says nothing about the number of kids who live in divorced households, as a reasonable % of these divorces happen before kids, or after kids have left the home. Even so, divorced fathers usually maintain connection and financial interest in their children. Women that have litters of kids without ever bothering to get married in the first place are an entirely different problem. Their economic stats are far worse than those of divorced women (the usual primary caregivers).

Fatherlessness (kids born when the mother has never been married to the father) is a huge problem in the black community. Some honest black leaders point this out themselves (on both sides of the political system).

This was about the tangential problem introduced regarding the guy seeking employment far from where he lived by driving 1200 miles.

On topic, it's a little less likely to apply since they are buying houses, which, assuming they can no longer get NINJa loans (No Income, No Job) means they are very likely families so this doesn't apply except in the broad cultural sense since any honest to goodness black families are somewhat rare overall, and exceedingly rare coming from an inner city. This means the kids might have a good family, but their friends back in the 'hood were overwhelmingly likely to not have a relationship with their dads (except maybe knowing he was that 'playa down the block).