Is Lyndon Johnson partially to blame for the rise in single-parent homes?

[Ferguson97]

Some people have suggested that Lyndon Johnson’s guarantee of government handouts if were a single parent disincentivized women from being married while having children, raising the percent of children raised without both parents.

People who have suggested this are idiots.

So the argument here is that these women are getting pregnant, and then refusing to marry the fathers of their children... because then they wouldn't be entitled to certain welfare benefits? Almost all of them would be better off marrying their children's father and just living off the wages that he earns.

This nonsensical "welfare queen" argument should have died in the 80s.

And one of the biggest reasons for the rise in single-parent homes is the rise in mass incarceration.

[Ferguson97]

Exactly as vacuous, irrelevant and insubstantial a reply as I expected. No point in engaging.

FFS questioning just how much the sexual Revolution actually changed social behaviors-instead of the social perception of behaviors- is legitimate. Why are you so averse to anyone disagreeing with you?

Because you're sidestepping the entire point of the discussion (a discussion you yourself started) to get us on an irrelevant tangent based on some ridiculous strawman of "what progressives believe" (yes, most people are fully aware that changing cultural attitudes and actual policies is going to affect social behaviors, progressive or not).

That’s not true at all. For instance, most progressives say that demonizing teen sex/teaching abstinence-only sex education has no effectiveness at actually preventing teens from having sex, so comprehensive sex ed is the only way to go, because teens will have sex anyways.

I would argue that students choosing to practice safe sex versus unsafe sex as a result of the education that they received to be evidence in favor of our argument, not against it.

Behaviors surrounding sex aren’t just a binary “you’re either having it or you’re not”, it also relates to who’s having sex, who they’re having sex with, and how they’re having sex.

[Ferguson97]

Demonstrably. Like this isnt even disputable.

Is your argument that a significant number of unmarried women choose to remain unmarried because they'd rather have the welfare? This is something that you genuinely believe to be true?