Fathers disappear from households across America

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-12-26 19:42

Article here. Excerpt:

'In every state, the portion of families where children have two parents, rather than one, has dropped significantly over the past decade. Even as the country added 160,000 families with children, the number of two-parent households decreased by 1.2 million. Fifteen million U.S. children, or 1 in 3, live without a father, and nearly 5 million live without a mother. In 1960, just 11 percent of American children lived in homes without fathers.

America is awash in poverty, crime, drugs and other problems, but more than perhaps anything else, it all comes down to this, said Vincent DiCaro, vice president of the National Fatherhood Initiative: Deal with absent fathers, and the rest follows.
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"We have one class that thinks marriage and fatherhood is important, and another which doesn’t, and it’s causing that gap, income inequality, to get wider,” Mr. DiCaro said.

The predilection among men to walk away from their babies is concentrated in the inner cities. In Baltimore, 38 percent of families have two parents, and in St. Louis the portion is 40 percent.

The near-total absence of male role models has ripped a hole the size of half the population in urban areas.'

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And the state/feminism has had *nothing* to do with this, I suppose?

The creation of a reward system for women to divorce the fathers of their children or not let them live in the same household with them was established by the state. Feminism also has lobbied and encouraged women to pursue motherhood, if they do, to do so insisting that fathers are not only unnecessary for children's well-being but actually a detriment. They have succeeded in propagating this falsehood monumentally well, and the inner cities, where it is most apparent, are a testament to it. They have also convinced large numbers of men under a certain age that this is also correct: that they are not really needed. Of course, feminists insist that fathers should have to pay for these kids or contribute financially to their care, but have no actual parental rights at the same time.

The fault around this current sorry state of affairs rests squarely with two entities: the government and feminists. And they have the gall to blame it on fathers.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2012-12-26 22:05

Inner cities were built by the "no man in the house" welfare state, which bribed mom to get rid of dad or simply have children with a lot of different men, none of which stuck around because then she's lose her benefits.

This policy was in effect before Russell Long of Louisiana decided the federal government needed to get into the child support business as a way of reimbursing itself for welfare. He noticed the problem was absent fathers, so he wanted them to repay the welfare. Funny how he didn't notice they were absent because the federal government required them to be absent so mom and the kids could get benefits. The feds force dads our of their home and them criminalize these dads if they don't pay support.

But the only real problem here is dads have a "predilection" to abandoning their kids. Yeah, right.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2012-12-27 21:32