John B. Wilson: A Nation Of The Rich And The Poor?

John Q. Wilson (1931-2012) was a political, social scientist, and an author who was a tocquevillian, which is of, or pertaining to Alexis de Tocqueville, or characteristic of his democratic ideals. He confronted many questions during his acclaimed career as an academe were relevant to the conservation of the organizations of religion, family, and community that he judged to be crucial to a democratic way of life. Wilson was never a bandwagoner he was one to stand aside from the crowd he was known for going against the grain. Wilson said that institutions were oppressive to individuals, women, and minority groups and thus needed either to be reformed or suppressed (Piereson, 2012). Wilson was professor emeritus in government at Harvard University

In one nation a child is brought up by both of his and or her parents they receive and education, a job, a spouse and a home that is deemed a safe haven. In the other nation, a child is brought up by an unwed single mother who resides in a neighborhood full of irresponsible sexual men but few committed fathers, and deems gang life s necessity of self-protection and valuable for self-advancement. The American sociologist, Elijah Anderson, has put the matter more bluntly: In our big cities, the middle-class, both white and black, thinks of itself as the outcome of the great tradition of Western culture, but nearby, there is a second culture of young, marginally employed, sexually adventuresome, socially aggressive young men who reject the idea of hard work and social conformity that made their elders successful (Wilson,

Women who are raising children without a father present and condemning those children to a life that puts them at a profound disadvantage to other people a disadvantage that cannot be corrected simply by extending the benefits of a free economy, because these children will not do well in school. If they're females, they will have children out of wedlock when they're 15 or 16 years old. They'll repeat the problems of their mothers. They will live on welfare or whatever comes along to substitute for welfare in the future. Their children will not do well in school, so their grandchildren will have this problem. We will not be able to reach this second nation with America's chief resources, which are personal freedom and economic