What’s funny is a lot of baby daddies are these “average” men that y’all insist get no play. A lot are your average blue collar, warehouse, UPS, construction worker. And a lot of baby mamas are average office, retail/customer service, social service/medical field workers. There’s a difference between the criminal and working class element. And there’s also a difference between “baby mama/baby daddy culture” and “criminal culture”. There’s people with college degrees having kids without marriage. Men and women.
But on topic, the definition of “community” is more difficult nowadays with people working so long and commuting so much. Working people are tired and don’t have as much time to give back to the community or even have other hobbies. Back in my parents generation, they got married if there was a pregnancy scare and both men and women had to grow up. They also had more parental support because grandmas used to be at home to help. Now grandma still working, and mama and daddy are both doing them. Multiply this for an entire community, plus racism and discrimination, and this is where we are.
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Yeah, the average work commute back in 1980 was only 6 minutes, now people traveling 2-4 hours PER DAY round trip to and from work. For ONE source of income. The economy is broken.