Being a black man: He's not there in the house. Will he be there for his son?

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[celejrm313]

When 19-year-old Donné McDaniel became pregnant last year, Tim Wagoner didn't consider marrying her.

"Nah, man, it wasn't really discussed. We're just friends."

They'd dated a year. The pregnancy wasn't planned.

Now their son, Zyhir, is 4 months old. Zyhir stays here, stays there.

It's 11 a.m., a cold fall morning. A darkened rowhouse in Northwest Washington, just off Georgia Avenue. "Cold Case Files," the television cop show, is the only electric illumination in the room. Cries come from the crib by the couch.

"You fussin', shorty? You don't want to be in there?"

A tattooed hand reaches down, pulls little Zyhir up to his lap. "The bottle? This it?"

[kellynch]

Scary stuff.

[samtheman]

The continuing legacy of Welfarism. The White Socialist Masters keeping Americans of African descent chained to the plantation of Bureaucratic Bounty. (What they don't tell you is, that the Bounty is all for the Bureaucrats.)

[RayStacy]

for later

[jdm]

This article reminds me of those old 'yo momma' jokes:

• Yo momma so fat when she has sex, she has to give directions!
• Yo momma so fat she put on her lipstick with a paint-roller
• Yo momma so fat she has to use a VCR as a beeper!
• Yo momma so fat when she dances the band skips.
• Etc

[zarf]

After witnessing, over a sustained period of time, the unmitigated disaster of so many of these "inner city" families I changed my view of gay marraige.

We need loving, responsible adults raising children....regardless of sexual preference.

[celejrm313]

it is almost scary--the reality of fatherhood in America.

[relictele]

This is a bit of an oblique view, but this story serves as a case study in the ongoing war on the middle class. Unfortunately, there are those who think that this scenario is perfectly normal and there are plenty who want to be at the top of the food chain when it comes to "providing" for these ignorant fools as long as the votes come in (the middle class is ignored, of course, except as a source of revenue).

[L98Fiero]

"The White Socialist Masters keeping Americans of African descent chained to the plantation of Bureaucratic Bounty."

There's a two-way, symbiotic relationship going on there. Nobody is chained to anything.

[RockinRight]

Yo momma's so old she's in Jesus' yearbook!
Yo momma's so short she poses for trophies!

[ChiMark]

The future of the NBA. No, but seriously these children
have little chance of becoming responsible adults.

It's a tragedey created with the aid of liberalism.

[celejrm313]

with this becoming the norm it is almost scary to envision the world in 30 years (once all of these children are adults and should be supporting the U.S. economy). How will we remain a superpower when our children will be lucky to graduate high school (not to mention criminal records)

[AppyPappy]

Today, he's in class and the subject is math. He's worn down by a killer headache and it's hard to concentrate.

BS. It's just hard work and watching TV is easier.

[workerbee]

The D.C. Health Department just won a $10 million, five-year grant for programs designed to help fathers with the basics of supporting their children..... There is little empirical evidence to suggest how these efforts are working. Jeffrey M. Johnson, president of the National Partnership for Community Leadership, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes black fatherhood, says that 9 out of 10 "fatherhood" programs are informal mentoring and offer little life-changing help.

And the libs wail, "If only it had been a $20 million, ten-year grant..."

[Old_Mil]

We need loving, responsible adults raising children...

Indeed we do, which is precisely why homosexuals are or should be excluded from this discussion.

Are homosexual households, as the article suggests, simply another variant of human relationships that should be considered, along with marriage, as "part of mainstream American society"?

On the contrary, the evidence indicates that "committed" homosexual relationships are radically different from married couples in several key respects:

· relationship duration
· monogamy vs. promiscuity
· relationship commitment
· number of children being raised
· health risks
· rates of intimate partner violence

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02

So you see, by placing children either in situations where homosexuals adopt them or they are raised by "married" gays, you are subjecting them to a form of institutionalized, politically driven child abuse and setting them up for failure.

[chit*chat]

Welcome to Hillary's village.

[Anne of DC]

I keep thinking of that poor little baby being bounced around like a ping-pong ball. I would be so confused about where I lived or were I belonged if I were moved about like he is.

but I guess his parents are doing the best they can. it's too bad they don't think of marrying and making Zyhir's life more easier.

[Rummyfan]

Now their son, Zyhir, is 4 months old. Zyhir stays here, stays there.

Sounds like poor Zyhir gtes passed around like a football. But really... Zyhir??????

[Nat Turner]

welcome to your future...We (blacks) are just canaries in the social coalmine... Thanks liberals...

[Anne of DC]

Seems like poor little Zyhir is nothing more than an obstical to his parents,maybe he should have kept his pants pu and she should have kept her legs closed if they wanted thier freedom.