Iconic News: Exciting Shift in Marriage Data
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Iconic News: Exciting Shift in Marriage Data
We hear the same data points often: 70% of Black households are led by women.
That is used to shape excuses for crime, debauchery and other negative images of Black native-born Americans in this country.
We get compared to other races and even disrespected by minorities that are supposedly doing better.
Politicians use these numbers when shaping policy, government programs and more.
Television producers make commercials and stereotype acts as gangbangers, and thugs with no dad in the home and a struggling single mother.
Chart provided by : "Gang member" and "thug" roles in film are disproportionately played by black actors - Vox
These media messages are to paint a picture that the majority of Black children have no chance because it is a rough start.
Yet, has any of these groups that have managed to shape these images updated YOU on the new data?
No.
Ask them why on social media today. Why are they still spouting old numbers and what benefit does it serve the Black community or America in general to keep pushing old data and old talking points?
Yet, the marriage data has changed. And it has for all of us.
And I am one who reported the old charts and graphs because Iconic Media wants to bring you up to speed on whatever the data is in real time.
As we brought up Ronald Reagan this week and his no-fault divorce.
We left you with the good news from the Indiana Daily Study article:
In recent years in the United States, there has been a rise in the number of children being raised in two-parent households, across all demographics.
Kids from all demographics are being raised in two parent households.
They do better in school, avoid criminal activity and are more likely to advance in life thanks to the work of both parents.
This is wonderful news.
As we point out in the Iconic article “The Case for Marriage”, children in two parent households fare better than not in every aspect.
This is promising.
But more importantly the story reports:
Amongst all races, African Americans have seen the biggest increase in the number of children who are living in a two-parent household, regardless of the parents’ marital status.
We can get into the reasons why it has been hard on Black families specifically and the trends in other communities as well, but the point here is hopeful.
It means that families all across the board are doing better.
I was so excited about the good news that I rushed to my Twitter page to let Icons know:
The data did indeed change. According to Pew Research, a non-partisan organization, Black families are now 39% married couple led and only 31% single mother led.
That is a HUGE drop from 70% single mothers to 31% single mothers.
For the first time in decades, marriages outweigh single motherhood!
Exciting.
It was first pushed as changed by Coach Felecia Killings on her Twitter Timeline. She is CEO of the My Beloved Women’s Ministry, a branch of the Felecia Killings Foundation, in which she coaches single mothers in marriage, motherhood, business and ministry so that they can be empowered to radically transform their lives.
She pushed her “Beloveds” to ask their conservative political pundits on these new numbers and why they still spout old data.
Old data makes old talking points seem relevant and shapes a political base to regurgitate.
Her organization, the Conscious Conservative Movement is a political think tank reshaping how conservatives on the right build an alliance with Black voters and so that means changing old messaging that distract potential voters from the Republican base.
That is why changing these talking points matter to her.
We know now most Black voters vote Democrat, and CCM believes that to leverage our government, we need Dual Domination: voting split between both parties.
In order to achieve that, Republicans need to do away with old talking points and stereotypes that are off putting.
Politics is where we go to protect what we are building. Politics is business.
There is no point in building Iconic marriages if we do not protect them politically with our vote.
This is not a call to be Republican. This is a call for the stereotypes and talking points to be thrown in the trash because they at minimum don’t even match current data.
(You can check out more work here: My Beloved News | Coach Felecia Killings | Substack)
How exactly are her team members supposed to do that when the top brass is spouting old information?
That is why we stay on top of the new here to keep everyone informed.
That is why it was important for me to make Iconic a media organization as well so we can give you the truth.
Look at the data here for yourself: Facts About the U.S. Black Population | Pew Research Center
Broken homes, single mother household and more affect American communities in many ways.
That is why we celebrate that we are going in a positive direction.
Many in the media, those running for office and more want to keep the old data and you will have to ask them why.
How are individuals going to know that others in their own community see the value in marriage when those with the microphones are not updating them?
They come here.
We are the alternative media showing you what others will not.
We here will continue to bring you Iconic News weekly in marriage, family and parenthood related topics so that you are in the now and are not playing catch up.
We are a media and messaging company as well.
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