From USATODAY:
Keith Morse met his father when he was 7 years old in the visiting hall at Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola state prison.
Today, Morse is serving a life sentence in the same prison for murder. It’s here that he sees his own 16-year-old son once a year during the day-long Returning Hearts celebration, a program that reunites inmate fathers with their kids…
More than 1.7 million children across the USA have a parent in U.S. prisons, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The number of children with a father in prison grew by 77% from 1991 through mid-2007. And those children are two to three more times likely to wind up behind bars themselves, says Christopher Wildeman, a University of Michigan sociologist who has studied the effects of imprisoned parents…
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Every father’s day we see these “bad dad” stories errupt – it is amazing. Think about how many “bad mom” stories you would see on Mother’s Day”.
Perhaps Barack will come out and attack all black fathers again and herald the black moms on Father’s Day. WOWSA!
Again – imagine Barack making negative comments about mom’s at any time – NOT happenin.
Here’s the fact. The primary common denominator for prisoners in America is that they were raised by their mothers – period.
Yet, the press would have you believe it is NOT the mothers fault or responsibility how the kids turned out at all. Unless, of course, they turn out well – then she will get the credit.
Perhaps we should look at all the government programs which pay the mom’s to thrash the dads and eliminate them from the children’s lives. Perhaps we should consider that contrary to the womens movement the fact is that fathers are necessary to children and not just sperm donors and ATM machines.
PS HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all those GREAT fathers who love their children more than anything in the world. We know your out there.