Add to this those myriad of children who are separated from their fathers because of martial breakup. What we have is a national crisis. In fact, the chaos we now experience across America is mainly caused by the absence of effective fathering. Political and social leaders describe this chaos in terms of teen pregnancy, births where there is no marriage, drugs, violence, crime and poverty. But what most fail to see is that fatherlessness is the engine driving the chaos.
Boys have guns and girls have babies because neither have fathers.
Whether children grow up to succeed or fail is determined not by whether their fathers are rich or poor but by whether as fathers they are good or bad. So the origin of the national chaos is no mystery. Drop out of school, Abuse drugs and alcohol, Be sexually active, Get in trouble with the police, Live in poverty. But cultural leaders cling to their politically correct agendas. Fatherhood, they say, is a hangover from the 1950 sit-coms.