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=== Assistant: Yes — there are documented public remarks by Charlie Kirk that reference single-motherhood specifically in the Black co… ===
Yes — there are documented public remarks by Charlie Kirk that reference single-motherhood (specifically in the Black community) and the absence of fathers. Here are a few of the more-notable ones, along with context and attribution so you can evaluate them.

===== 🔍 Key Statements & Sources =====
* On the August 9 2018 edition of Fox & Friends, Kirk said: > “It’s a real tragedy going on in Chicago right now… What I was really struck by is there was not this huge call for gun control… Being from Chicago, we have seen the carnage increase over the last couple of years, and it really is a broken culture problem. And the common theme after talking to my fellow Chicagoans is that we have a lack of father problem in the Black community, especially in Chicago. And just one quick statistic, in the 1960’s, the single motherhood rate in Chicago and across the country was about 18 percent in the Black community. Now it’s over 75 percent. … Think about that. In Chicago, only 25 percent of young Black youth will even have a father in the household, and that has contributed to this endless cycle of gang violence and gun violence.”  > mediamatters.org > +1
* In a commentary summary of Kirk’s views, the Wikipedia entry reports: “In 2018, Kirk cited single motherhood in Chicago’s Black community as a cause of gun violence, blaming the absence of a father from some Black households on ‘a broken culture problem’.” Wikipedia<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikipedia|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk|publisher=en.wikipedia.org|access-date=2025-11-11}}</ref>
* Separately, he’s made remarks emphasising that for young women the “biblical model” is marriage and children rather than career first. For example, in a 2025‐blog piece: > “Having a family will change your life in the best ways, so get married and have kids. You won’t regret it.”  > Institute for Family Studies

===== ✅ What this does show =====
* Kirk did explicitly link high rates of single-motherhood (in a specific demographic/context) to social problems (gun violence) and suggested father absence is a key part of the issue.
* He has publicly advocated for marriage + children (rather than delaying) as a preferred path for women.
* These remarks are documented by media monitoring and credible sources (e.g., Media Matters) rather than pure hearsay. mediamatters.org<ref>{{cite web|title=mediamatters.org|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/charlie-kirk-blames-chicago-gun-violence-lack-father-problem-black-community|publisher=mediamatters.org|access-date=2025-11-11}}</ref>

===== ⚠️ What this doesn’t fully show (or what remains unclear) =====
* It does not appear that I found a full verbatim transcript in which he addresses all single mothers broadly (across all communities) in the way that some social media posts attribute. The focus in the documented remark is Black youth / Black community in Chicago.
* The original broadcast (Fox & Friends) clip would provide full context (tone, follow-up, exact wording) — I found only a summary in Media Matters, not a full unedited transcript in my search.
* Because the remarks are in a social/political commentary context, nuance (what he meant, what he didn’t say, how it was received) matters a lot; there is risk of mis-quote or exaggeration when transferred to memes/comments.
* These remarks may be sampled or clipped; without the full video or full transcript you cannot be sure of the surrounding context (e.g., is he addressing policy, discussing statistics, offering solutions) which affects how they come across.

If you like, I can attempt to locate a video clip of that August 9 2018 segment (or as close as we can get) and try to transcribe the full relevant section for you (so you can judge exactly what was said, word-for-word). Would that be helpful?