Abstract
The Moynihan Report of 1965 became one of the most talked about pieces during 1960s. At the time the report was written, Daniel Patrick served as Sectary for policy planning for The Department of Labor. The report was very controversial during that time; it spoke of the racial issues African American faced, education barriers, employment barriers, single family homes. It was during a time where African Americans were fighting for equality as well as liberty. Moynihan received great criticism from African American authors as well as from the black community. Fifty years later in 2013 the Moynihan Report Revisited was released by The Urban Institute. The Moynihan Report Revisited was done to see how has black families changed over …show more content…
Moynihan stated “that the gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening” (Moynihan, 1965). Reason for that widening gap is family structure. Moynihan believed that “the Negro families in the urban ghettos are crumbling, due to poverty” (Moynihan, 1965). He referred to the issues as a “tangle of pathologies”. Two important issues Moynihan used through the report to support his argument are the absence of fathers in the homes and female headed households. He argued the unemployment rate of black men were the reason women became head of the household. Moynihan spoke of many structural inequalities that blacks faced before and during the time his report was written; such as education, employment, crime, segregation, and …show more content…
The revisited report examines the state of black families today, compared to the work of Moynihan. It also “explores factors that may be responsible for the limited, halting progress of black families, and suggestions for improving circumstances of black families and reducing disparities” (Acs, Braswell, Sorensen, & Turner, 2013). Moynihan believed that raising children in a two parent home would end the untangled web, unfortunately it did not. The Moynihan Report Revisited 2013 states that, “more children of all races and ethnicities have been raised in one parent families or unmarried parent families” (Acs, Braswell, Sorensen, & Turner, 2013, p. 19). Moynihan Report of 1965 was greatly criticized, although he did not point out any strengths of the black community, many issues he discussed are still issues for African Americans
The Moynihan Report of 1965 became one of the most talked about pieces during 1960s. At the time the report was written, Daniel Patrick served as Sectary for policy planning for The Department of Labor. The report was very controversial during that time; it spoke of the racial issues African American faced, education barriers, employment barriers, single family homes. It was during a time where African Americans were fighting for equality as well as liberty. Moynihan received great criticism from African American authors as well as from the black community. Fifty years later in 2013 the Moynihan Report Revisited was released by The Urban Institute. The Moynihan Report Revisited was done to see how has black families changed over …show more content…
Moynihan stated “that the gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening” (Moynihan, 1965). Reason for that widening gap is family structure. Moynihan believed that “the Negro families in the urban ghettos are crumbling, due to poverty” (Moynihan, 1965). He referred to the issues as a “tangle of pathologies”. Two important issues Moynihan used through the report to support his argument are the absence of fathers in the homes and female headed households. He argued the unemployment rate of black men were the reason women became head of the household. Moynihan spoke of many structural inequalities that blacks faced before and during the time his report was written; such as education, employment, crime, segregation, and …show more content…
The revisited report examines the state of black families today, compared to the work of Moynihan. It also “explores factors that may be responsible for the limited, halting progress of black families, and suggestions for improving circumstances of black families and reducing disparities” (Acs, Braswell, Sorensen, & Turner, 2013). Moynihan believed that raising children in a two parent home would end the untangled web, unfortunately it did not. The Moynihan Report Revisited 2013 states that, “more children of all races and ethnicities have been raised in one parent families or unmarried parent families” (Acs, Braswell, Sorensen, & Turner, 2013, p. 19). Moynihan Report of 1965 was greatly criticized, although he did not point out any strengths of the black community, many issues he discussed are still issues for African Americans