'God's Desire for Marriage Is Good' - Delano Squires Blames Welfare for Vanishing Black Family

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Marriage rates in the US have been on the decline for decades, especially in the black community. In the 1960s, 61% of black Americans were married. In 2026, that number has dropped by more than half, with recent U.S. Census data showing about 36% for black men and 29% for black women. Many point to financial issues as one of the reasons for not getting married. "Economics is not the primary driver of why black family formation patterns look the way they do today," Delano Squires, who leads the Heritage Foundation's Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing, told CBN News. In his new book, The Vanishing Black Family, Squires highlights reasons beyond the economics problem. "Today in America, about 70% of black children are born to unmarried parents and about half live with a single parent, typically a single mom," Squires explained. "So, what we have is a family structure where to be a black child who was born to and raised by your married biological parents through y

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