Daniel Patrick Moynihan

US Senate member representing New York State/Democratic Party 1976-2000

died Mar'2003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan

From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos. (Poverty)