By : Here are some facts:
And here is my working thesis:
Our boys are in trouble due to the lack of positive male leadership they have in their lives.
It’s only after a conversation with a friend about how far we’ve progressed in our manhood that I realized how lucky I am to be where I am in life.
I was a delinquent teenager. For years I couldn’t stand my father. I loved booze and girls and getting into fights, and I had a weapon drawn on me on more than one occasion despite living in one of the nation’s safest towns. I was heading down a bad path.
I had an intact family. On paper. A mom and a dad that cared about a sister that I perpetually fought with and me. We had nice family portraits and the like but no real adhesive that bonded us all together.
- In the USA, 25% of all children are in a single-parent household.
- 72% of all black children are raised in single-parent households.
- Of single-parent families, 83% of children live with their mother and 17% live with their father.
- 49% of single mothers have never married.
And here is my working thesis:Our boys are in trouble due to the lack of positive male leadership they have in their lives.
It’s only after a conversation with a friend about how far we’ve progressed in our manhood that I realized how lucky I am to be where I am in life.
I was a delinquent teenager. For years I couldn’t stand my father. I loved booze and girls and getting into fights, and I had a weapon drawn on me on more than one occasion despite living in one of the nation’s safest towns. I was heading down a bad path.
I had an intact family. On paper. A mom and a dad that cared about a sister that I perpetually fought with and me. We had nice family portraits and the like but no real adhesive that bonded us all together.






