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What Charles Murray thinks about family

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Political scientist, born in 1943, whose Losing Ground (1984) argued that US welfare programs from the 1960s on made poverty worse by rewarding behaviour that kept people poor.

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4 dated positions, 2018, in their own words. Our reading of what Charles Murray has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingAbolishing welfare would not restore the old norms around family formation

    Their wordsAnd so, I had to come with terms to the fact that I don’t think getting rid of the welfare system would in any way fully restore the same kind of milieu, in which teenage boys and teenage girls made decisions about this sort of thing.

    ↗Conversations with Bill Kristol: Charles Murray III (taped February 7, 2018; transcript)conversationswithbillkristol.org 3rd of 7 in this piece

  3. Our readingFor low-income people, the social fabric that made families form has frayed enormously

    Their wordsFamilies only form in the first place because there are very powerful social and economic pressures when kids are 20 years old to do that thing. And that fabric has just frayed enormously, for low-income people.

    ↗Conversations with Bill Kristol: Charles Murray III (taped February 7, 2018; transcript)conversationswithbillkristol.org 4th of 7 in this piece

  5. Our readingThe environment siblings share explains far less of how they turn out than once thought

    Their wordsIt is settled science that this shared environment the siblings have explains far less about how they turn out than we thought it did.

    ↗Conversations with Bill Kristol: Charles Murray III (taped February 7, 2018; transcript)conversationswithbillkristol.org 5th of 7 in this piece

  7. Our readingThe family matters for how children turn out, but less than once thought

    Their wordsSo, the family is still important, it is not as important as I used to think.

    ↗Conversations with Bill Kristol: Charles Murray III (taped February 7, 2018; transcript)conversationswithbillkristol.org 6th of 7 in this piece