I agree with you about the media's treatment of Donalds. There's nothing more disingenuous than putting words in someone's mouth.
As far as the marriage stats, I get it. But to be honest, I wonder about the quality of those marriages. I, too, remember when divorce was a lot less common, but too often that meant couples sticking it out for some rather toxic reasons (i.e., "the sake of the kids", "society", etc.)
Safe to say, there were a lot of unhappy marriages--dare I say, abusive?--back in the day. They made for some distinctly dysfunctional environments for kids--no doubt about it. We just don't know all of the details (and apparently, would rather gloss over them than dig too deep).
But miserable marriages were not rare. Thus, I hesitate to romanticize the state of the Black family yesterday versus today. It is not a cut-and-dried conversation.
I agree with you about the media's treatment of Donalds. There's nothing more disingenuous than putting words in someone's mouth.
As far as the marriage stats, I get it. But to be honest, I wonder about the quality of those marriages. I, too, remember when divorce was a lot less common, but too often that meant couples sticking it out for some rather toxic reasons (i.e., "the sake of the kids", "society", etc.)
Safe to say, there were a lot of unhappy marriages--dare I say, abusive?--back in the day. They made for some distinctly dysfunctional environments for kids--no doubt about it. We just don't know all of the details (and apparently, would rather gloss over them than dig too deep).
But miserable marriages were not rare. Thus, I hesitate to romanticize the state of the Black family yesterday versus today. It is not a cut-and-dried conversation.