In the United States, a large fraction of black men have been forced into such a situation. Men who avoid these bad fates find themselves in high sexual demand and tend to play the field, leaving many black women to raise families without a committed partner. Many in the ruling class have long pretended that this pattern derives from some imagined moral failing among black people, when instead it plainly emerges from demographics and game theory that would produce the same pattern in any population faced with similar conditions.
