#RestitutionNow Campaign
The rebuilding of the family is essential to creating a culture of respectability, fairness and integrity in Black America and the restoration of fatherhood is vital to the family.
In March 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a sociologist at the time, issued a report - The Negro Family: A Case for National Action. In that report, Moynihan warned of a looming catastrophe for the Black family concluding that “Three centuries of injustice have brought about deep-seated structural distortions in the life of the Negro America”. Few Black leaders at that time agreed that intervention was needed to correct the distortions. Moynihan warned that Black men were being alienated from their roles as husbands and fathers in the family.
Today, the government reports are that more than 72% of Black children grow up in single parent female headed households and the case for national action remains.
Download The State of the Black Family In America, a report by the Marriage and Religion Research Institute.
Pillar One: Sanctity of Life
The Declaration of Independence is America’s preeminent charter that formed the nation. The first right cited in that founding document is the unalienable right to life. The sanctity of life is a principle of implied protection and of such value it is not to be violated.
The leading cause of death in the Black community is not HIV-AIDS, Cancer, Homicide, Accidents, Diabetes or heart disease. Tragically the leading cause of death is abortion. More than 25,000,000 black babies have died at the abortionist’s hand since 1970 when the first abortion center was opened in upstate New York. As Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in 2009, Roe v. Wade enabled the termination of lives in “the population we don’t want too many of”. Restoration of the sanctity of life is vital to the culture in the 21st century.
Pillar Two: Family
[fam-uh-lee, fam-lee] noun, plural fam•i•lies
adjective noun - A basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not:
the traditional family.
Today, the basic social unit of parents and their children has changed and the two parent model of the family has become the exception rather than the rule. This is especially true in the black community where only 28% of black children have the experience of growing up with their dad in the home. Restoration of the success sequence, i.e. finish high school, get a full-time job once you finish school and get married before you have children is vital to the restoration of the family in the 21st century.
Pillar Three: Education
ˌejəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.
Education is a form of learning, a preparation for wise leadership and personal achievement. It is the opening of the mind to new ideas. America’s education standards have so deteriorated, that students now fall far below their foreign peers.
The restoration of parental rights is paramount if our children are to receive the best education possible. Parents must be empowered to select schools that best fit their child’s education needs. Whether in public, private or parochial schools, parents know best what school setting will give their children the most opportunity to succeed.
