Reply #56: The work was done in the early/mid 90s. [View All]

[Igel]

One corollary was the research Bennett referred to in his extrapolation about abortions.

The researchers found similar groups, in fact. It wasn't entirely socio-economic, if I'm understanding the unnumbered poster's definition properly.

Mix in a fairly closed community, high school drop out rates, high unemployment rates, single-parent families (usually out-of-wedlock births), and the poverty that results from the previous factors, and you get similar rates regardless of race.

The researchers called it 'dense' poverty. And it was hard to find exactly similar groups; dense poverty is disproportionately concentrated in the AA community. Moreover, it's persistent: it's passed from parent to kid, and disrupting its transmission requires changing pretty much everything at once--not just income, not just education, not just providing a father and mother, and not just moving the people out of the neighborhood. And still there's no guarantee of the kid breaking the cycle.