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Children are more likely to turn to crime if parents battle frequently, or if one parent is missing through death, divorce or abandonment. The stresses on blacks seem particularly severe. A decade ago, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then Assistant Secretary of Labor, published his report on the black family in America, 24% of these families were headed by a woman, with no father present. Now the figure is 35%. Says James Q. Wilson: "The forces that continue to operate on the black family, particularly in the inner city, continue to create situations in which young people are hopelessly disadvantaged...
...good example is Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government, a man who has been on leave for four of the last six years. Last month Dean Rosovsky granted Moynihan an unprecedented third leave of absence from the Faculty so that Moynihan could accept President Ford's call to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
...Many of those who don't think Moynihan's a racist and an imperialist feel he's a boring, uninteresting speaker," Fiduccia said, adding that many Stanford seniors are unhappy with the selection process used to find speakers for the June 15 commencement...
...Moynihan was the Stanford speaker committee's fourth choice, after Katherine S. Graham, Shirley Hoffsteader and Robert Penn Warren declined invitations to speak
Graduating seniors who object to Moynihan attempted last month to arrange to conduct an alternative graduation ceremony, but Stanford refused to allow them to have a separate diploma-awarding ceremony, Fiduccia said...