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Fathers disappear from households across America
washington times ^ | 12.26.2012 | Luke Rosiak

Posted on 12/26/2012 2:06:21 PM PST by Morgana

Nicole Hawkins‘ three daughters have matching glittery boots, but none has the same father. Each has uniquely colored ties in her hair, but none has a dad present in her life.

As another single mother on Sumner Road decked her row-house stoop with Christmas lights and a plastic Santa, Ms. Hawkins recalled that her middle child’s father has never spent a holiday or birthday with her. In her neighborhood in Southeast Washington, 1 in 10 children live with both parents, and 84 percent live with only their mother.

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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1 posted on 12/26/2012 2:06:29 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Read the communist manifesto.

Destroying the family, and all the other ills in our society, are on their list.


2 posted on 12/26/2012 2:11:48 PM PST by bicyclerepair ( >-> Zombies eat brains. >-> 50% of FL is safe.)
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To: Morgana

Families without fathers is mostly a symptom of other things.

You can’t order the tide to come in or go out. Either be willing to address root causes, or admit defeat.


3 posted on 12/26/2012 2:12:40 PM PST by sourcery (If true=false, then there would be no constraints on what is possible. Hence, the world exists.)
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To: Morgana

Can we be told the demographics?? Or would that be racist??


4 posted on 12/26/2012 2:13:04 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Morgana

Forget the daughters - they just turn out to be obnoxious loudmouths. The real problem is the fatherless sons.

No dad + teenage testosterone rush = feral animal.


5 posted on 12/26/2012 2:13:08 PM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: bicyclerepair

“Read the communist manifesto.

Destroying the family, and all the other ills in our society, are on their list.”

Finally, somebody who remembers this. Exactly.


6 posted on 12/26/2012 2:16:02 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Morgana

Sounds like a future Democrat playground, preparation for pharmaceutical intervention and perpetual liberalism.


7 posted on 12/26/2012 2:16:20 PM PST by pallis
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To: Morgana
Nicole Hawkins‘ three daughters have matching glittery boots, but none has the same father sperm donor.

Fixed it.

This problem would be solved if the Nicoles in this world kept their panties on and didn't pick losers.

8 posted on 12/26/2012 2:20:48 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: bgill

“This problem would be solved if the Nicoles in this world kept their panties on and didn’t pick losers.”

What about the sperm donors? It takes two to tango, so should they not keep their pants zipped up? After all it would appear that some of them have been donating sperm all over creation.


9 posted on 12/26/2012 2:28:49 PM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: QBFimi

no, the fatherless girls become baby mamas looking for a male to love them, even for 5 minutes


10 posted on 12/26/2012 2:31:18 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: QBFimi

no, the fatherless girls become baby mamas looking for a male to love them, even for 5 minutes


11 posted on 12/26/2012 2:31:25 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Beowulf9

yes, and those other socialists, the ones in 1930-40’s Germany, were trying to do the very same thing — weaken and eventually destroy family life

people without families around them are more vulnerable, and easier for the dictators to manipulate and control

it is just that simple

take away God
take away the family
and pretty soon all that’s left is the state
...guess who gives the orders then?


12 posted on 12/26/2012 2:33:20 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Sacajaweau

I would give you the demographics, but that would be racist, so I’ll just help you out with a little hint:

“...her neighborhood in Southeast Washington...”


13 posted on 12/26/2012 2:35:29 PM PST by VMI70
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To: bgill
True, but Nicole does it because the Feds, State, and local governments pay, instantly, permanently, and generously, for bearing illegitmate children. Absolutely no strings attached.

These women do it obviously so they can have a household and not work, ever. Usually the maternal grandmother takes care of the kids, so, the mom can get back on line to breed more dependent infants.

The men (if you want to call them that, I prefer the term 'subhumans',) are happy to oblige.

If you are a certain demographic, neither the feds, state, or local authority will track you down for child support.

It has been like this since before the Great Society.

The Rats have designed it for numerical superiority of the dependent, who are also BTW totally ignorant and uneducated.

Have a friend who knows a public school teacher in Indianapolis who is aware of an Amish kid who has not even graduated and he has sixty (60) illegitimate kids. The girls line up to bear a kid with this person. No one will arrest him for nonsupport or for statutory rape or anything. Why? Because the rules only apply to the non-Amish, who must pay all the bills of this prolific man-child.

This year the Great Society bore fruit in that the socialist POTUS candidate promising the greatest give-aways was reelected.

It was close this time, but, don't worry.

It's the last time the election will be close.

14 posted on 12/26/2012 2:35:29 PM PST by caddie
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To: Morgana
Fathers disappear from households across America

It's the Crapture. :)

15 posted on 12/26/2012 2:35:29 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Morgana

bump

I’m beginning to think it is by design for the Brave New World


16 posted on 12/26/2012 2:36:44 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Sacajaweau

you are correct in that the problem is extremely bad, probably the worst, in one minority racial group

but... there are millions of broken families in the other groups, too. the percentages are almost certainly a lot less, yes, but the actual numbers are still quite considerable

alas, this is a very serious problem ... across the boards. all these families, or non-families, need our help, not just those in one racial group


17 posted on 12/26/2012 2:37:47 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: silverleaf
no, the fatherless girls become baby mamas looking for a male to love them, even for 5 minutes

So true. Too often the emphasis is on the damage a fatherless household does to males, but equal damage is done to females.

18 posted on 12/26/2012 2:37:51 PM PST by randita
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To: Morgana

and feminazis everywhere are happy.

It is feminazi policies that have led to this. They chopped men’s manhood off by denying him jobs through “affirmative action.” They made him superfluous through government handouts. They created punitive divorce laws that punish anyone with a manhood. They chopped at small business and punished anyone with the manhood to take the risk and start a business. They punished men with “minority preferences” in contracting - a male-owned business is scorned in favor of “minority” owned business.


19 posted on 12/26/2012 2:49:03 PM PST by I want the USA back
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To: Sacajaweau
Can we be told the demographics?? Or would that be racist??

At one time this was mostly an urban black issue...no longer...

Quick story...

A friend of my daughter (white) was telling her he realized his mother was a slut because she had six kids...

Now bear in mind my daughters mother (my wife) had six kids (4 are mine 2 from a former marriage) and that statement took my daughter a bit aback since both moms had six kids...

...until he mentioned all six kids had different daddies...

20 posted on 12/26/2012 2:54:30 PM PST by Popman
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