“Some may do it because they don’t have that leadership at home, and they just want to have people around that they feel comfortable with.” This kind of stuff has been happening for decades. It is a sad truth that few want to acknowledge or point out. The first question I had when I read…
Read moreGovernment To The Rescue!!!
In his remarks Thursday, the president made several telling points. First, the big-government approach won’t work: “Government can’t play the only — or even primary — role,” he said. “We can’t replace the role of the parent.” Second, the First Dad also spoke candidly about the negative impact of not having a father around had…
Read moreThe Myth Of The Deadbeat Dad
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 large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set…
Read moreMoynihan of the Moynihan Report
This was written in 1966. What has changed since? Have things improved in the black community with the government’s assistance? Moreover, the Moynihan Report noted that first-graders without fathers in the home have I.Q.’s 7.5 per cent lower than those with fathers and that, in central Harlem, where a majority of the children are fatherless,…
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