From one piece Conversations with Bill Kristol: Charles Murray III (taped February 7, 2018; transcript) 7 beliefs · conversationswithbillkristol.org
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I did change my mind on that as well. I wasn’t as conscious of the role of heredity in the 1980s as I became when I was working on The Bell Curve.
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The environment siblings share explains far less of how they turn out than once thoughtTheir words
It is settled science that this shared environment the siblings have explains far less about how they turn out than we thought it did.
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So, the family is still important, it is not as important as I used to think.
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Families only form in the first place because there are very powerful social and economic pressures when kids are 20 years old to do that thing. And that fabric has just frayed enormously, for low-income people.
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And so, I had to come with terms to the fact that I don’t think getting rid of the welfare system would in any way fully restore the same kind of milieu, in which teenage boys and teenage girls made decisions about this sort of thing.
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I will still defend the proposition that the social reforms of the 1960s were a major contributor to the acceleration of out-of-wedlock births.
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And, as years went on after Losing Ground, I became a lot more aware of the way in which something can be a cause of a problem at one point in time, but reversing it isn’t necessarily going to be the solution to the problem ten years later.