"We don't need traditional nuclear families for Black thriving.” --Rutgers University radical black feminist, Brittney Cooper
"I don't know why they are so committed to going against the natural Family unit, men and women raising their biological children, which is the bedrock of any society. People like Brittany Cooper dismiss the importance of fathers, particularly the black fathers. They mockingly refer to them as 'the Magical black daddy myth.' They promote the idea of individual reparations accounts for Black people that white people will pay into. And that gets at the heart of this problem. The left thinks that the biggest issues facing the black community are racism and wealth inequality. And that is why their preferred solutions are bigger government and better white people. Children need their fathers, they need strong families, and the bigger and stronger the family grows, the less need they have for government and their individual daily lives.”--Delano Squires
"Why is our culture suddenly producing so many young men who want to murder innocent people? Could things like fatherlessness, the breakdown of families, isolation from civil society, or the glorification of violence be contributing factors?" —Sen. Mike Lee
"Sen. Mike Lee is right to wonder if fatherlessness and family breakdown are factors in the tidal wave of violence that has engulfed America since 2020. We know that young men who are raised without the benefit of good fathers are more likely to engage in violent behavior.”— Sociologist Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia
"The first principle of society consists in the marriage tie, the next in children, the next in a family within one roof, where everything is in common. This society gives rise to the city, and is, as it were, the nursery of the commonwealth.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"America's crime problem is a father problem. This is one of our country's deepest and most denied family secrets. Everybody knows it, and everybody has known it for a very long time.”--Mary Eberstadt, one the our nation's foremost culture analysts
Lynne Marie Kohm, professor of family law at Regent University School of Law, notes that there are 5 family factors common to those who commit violent acts: "very little parental involvement; some kind of stress on the child; a whole lot of time alone; loss of a sense of truth; and an incredible lack of remorse."
In 2014, data showed that over 40% of babies were born out of wedlock, with that number jumping to an upsetting 70% of black babies. Furthermore, for women under the age of 30 bearing children, 65.7% of babies were born out of wedlock. And children growing up in fractured homes are more likely to repeat the same destructive patterns. When politicians, activists, and social commentators talk about inequality, they often leave out the critical role married parents play in keeping children above the poverty line. There is evidence that the breakdown of the nuclear family in American society is, in fact, the primary reason why the gulf between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' has widened over the past 50 years.
• 90% of all homeless and runaways come from fatherless homes
• 85% of all fatherless children exhibit behavioral disorders
• 85% of youth in prison come from fatherless homes
• 75% of adolescents being treated for drug abuse are from fatherless homes
• 75% of adolescent patients in substance abuse centers don't have involved dads
• 75% of rapists motivated by misplaced anger don't have a dad while growing up
• 71% of all high school dropouts don't have a dad
• 70% of juveniles in state-regulated institutions come from fatherless homes
• 63% of youth who commit suicide do not have a father in the home
• 57% of the fatherless homes are black(1) households, 31% are Hispanic, and 20% are white for a total of 18.3 million children
The absence of fathers is irrefutably linked to disastrous social policies and failed government programs supported primarily by suburban white leftists, which are responsible for keeping generations of poor, mostly black Americans ensnared and enslaved on urban poverty plantations.
