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>The Success Sequence is bunk, here's some reading on it[1] but the basic idea is that in those three points you laid out number 3 does basically all the explanatory work, number one does a little work and number 2 does almost nothing.

Interesting, though as the comment on one of those articles mentions, I wonder what would have happened if he had started with not having children out of wedlock, how much of a difference would adding in having a job and graduating high school made? Though he does go on to talk about how getting the number of people who are childless or married when they have children, is difficult.

>Okay then where does that culture problem come from? Does it just emerge from the ether to grab black people and wipe away their "personal responsibility"?

That's a good question. The Brookings Institute seems to think it is a result of women's sexual liberation and the unrestricted use of contraception.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/an-analysis-of-out-of-wed...