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- In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan released his report on the Black family, titled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” Through structural and cultural analysis, the “Moynihan Report,” as it was known colloquially, detailed “the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.”
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Political commentator Heather Mac Donald wrote for National Review in 2008, "Conservatives of all stripes routinely praise Daniel Patrick Moynihan's prescience for warning in 1965 that the breakdown of the black family threatened the achievement of racial equality. They rightly blast those liberals who denounced Moynihan's report."
- Chapter I. The Negro American Revolution. The Negro American revolution is rightly regarded as the most important domestic event of the postwar period in the United States.
- Chapter II. The Negro American Family. At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. It is the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time.
- Chapter III The Roots of the Problem. Slavery. The most perplexing question abut American slavery, which has never been altogether explained, and which indeed most Americans hardly know exists, has been stated by Nathan Glazer as follows: “Why was American slavery the most awful the world has ever known?”
- Chapter IV. The Tangle of Pathology. That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary — a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have.
Jun 13, 2013 · In 1965, sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a controversial report that said the decline of the black nuclear family was a major part of black poverty. Now, 50 years later, the...
On New Year’s Eve, 1964, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan assembled his staff in his office to announce that they were going to help him write a report on African American...
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan released his report on the Black family, titled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” Through structural and cultural analysis, the...
The gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening. The fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure. The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive — is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling.
The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN. The removal of legal obstacles to equality of opportunity did not directly lead—and has not yet led—to equal results for African Americans considered as a group.
