tigerred59
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FACT.....I raised 5 kids.....every last one of them, college educated, employed and making bank.....Fact...and I did all by myself!!Sure, I understand that. But there is a good number of black kids growing up who do not even know their father. I know this because I grew up around blacks. Obama agrees by the way. It is a problem.Absent fatherhood is a major indicator of whether young male individuals will become involved in crime, regardless of race. Young men raised in a home with married parents are the least likely to become involved with crime. Young black men are responsible for half of the murders in this country, and yet are only 6% of the population. Taking all of that into account, alongside the 72% out of wedlock birth rate... We can guess that a good number of young black men are growing up without fathers.
An out-of-wedlock birthdate does not correlate to an absentee father rate.
People who aren't married can still parent together.
" Statistics don't lie in this case
By Stephanie Garry on Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 a.m.
In a Father's Day address at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Sen. Barack Obama chose a less than celebratory topic: the absence of men in the lives of many children, especially black children.
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
He went on to say that these absent fathers don't realize that "responsibility does not end at conception" and are "acting like boys instead of men." "
Statistics don't lie in this case
I understand that two-parent family is best, but that doesn't always happen in the form of a married couple.
In this case, statistics can lie. An "out-of-wedlock" birth doesn't always mean an absentee father.