The Vanishing Black Family
How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable
$61.64
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2026
Summary
A bold Christian voice challenges progressives to confront the one racial disparity they have ignored for decades: the breakdown of the black family.
Today, 70 percent of black children are born to unmarried parents and close to half grow up without a father at home. Both figures are significantly higher than the national average. Yet progressives—especially black leaders in the church, politics, academia, and the media—are silent.
In The Vanishing Black Family, Delan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593852675 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593852672 |
| Author: | Delano Squires |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 432g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 235mm |
Delano Squires
Delano Squires is the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing at the Heritage Foundation. He studies the impact of marriage and family structure on social outcomes.
Squires is the author of several policy papers as well as op-eds and essays that have been published by the Institute for Family Studies, the New York Post, Compact, Newsweek, National Review, and Blaze Media. He has also written on matters of race, faith, and culture at Black Enterprise, The Root, TheGrio, World, and Black and Married with Kids.
Squires earned his bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a graduate degree in public policy from the George Washington University. He lives in Maryland with his wife and four children.
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