70% of Black Americans are raised in a single parent household and if you can combine that with the above statistics, the picture is not pretty.
The problem with single-parent housing has more to do with the reduction in income than lack of an authority figure/role model: A substantial body of research has demonstrated that, once income differences are taken into account, differences between children in single mother and two-parent families are far less pronounced." http://www.alabamapolicy.org/pdf/currentfamilystructure.pdf
The other thing is that West Indians and African immigrants outperform everyone (including Asians).
I totally agree with it being an income issue, but I only had statistics about fatherless.
If others are looking for a reference on what he is talking about regarding West Indian and African Black Immigrants see below:
About 8 percent, or 530, of Harvard's undergraduates were black, they said, but somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of black undergraduates were "West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples."(Foreign Born blacks only make up about 1% of the US population)
http://thesouthern.com/news/opinion/editorial/page/article_2...
The problem with single-parent housing has more to do with the reduction in income than lack of an authority figure/role model: A substantial body of research has demonstrated that, once income differences are taken into account, differences between children in single mother and two-parent families are far less pronounced." http://www.alabamapolicy.org/pdf/currentfamilystructure.pdf
The other thing is that West Indians and African immigrants outperform everyone (including Asians).