8 William Julius Wilson Quotes on Family

William Julius Wilson quotes on family

12. But this is quite different from Sweden, where the female-headed family rate is about equal to that of the United States, but poverty is not associated with family structure because Sweden you have a stronger family supports.

15. Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

27. Many of the government's actions aggravate rather than alleviate the stresses on ordinary families.

29. No other major Western democracy has such a weak family support program.

40. The basic thesis of The Bridge Over the Racial Divide is that there is a growing inequality in American society, and ordinary families are, in effect, getting the short end of it.

43. The reason that the large proportion of female-headed families in the black community is a problem is not because they're headed by women, but because these families are overwhelmingly impoverished families.

53. What Moynihan talked about back then is, I think is true today, and that is joblessness creates problem streams in the family. It leads to family break-ups resulting in an increasing number of families going on welfare.

54. When work disappears, that is when a growing number of adults are not working, it has an effect not only on individual life, but on family life and neighborhood life as well.