Fatherless Children: The Progressive-Democrat Nightmare by Oliver North for Town Hall
June is the month many American families celebrate Father’s Day – but thanks to progressive politicians and policies, the number of us who observe the occasion is declining precipitously. Father’s Day has always fallen short of generating the attention, sentimentality or commercial activity of Mother’s Day. So many children in America now live in single-parent, mother-only households that fatherlessness is, like the crisis at our southern border, a disaster progressive Democrats ignore, deny and avoid.
Fatherlessness is one of the most debilitating domestic issues confronting our country. Almost 20 million children in America live in fatherless households. Approximately 40 percent of all live births in our country are to single mothers, and 90 percent of welfare recipients are single mothers. To make matters worse, children of single mothers are five times more likely to grow up in poverty than those of married couples.
Fatherlessness is a major contributing factor in significant domestic problems including drug abuse, gun violence, child abuse, sexual abuse, chronic unemployment, homelessness and suicide. This being the case, one might think the Democratic Party would use its control of the House of Representatives, Senate and White House to actively pursue solutions for fatherlessness. Sadly, they refuse to take up the issue. Why? Because progressive Democratic policies not only encourage fatherlessness, but they also foment it.
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When Vice President Kamala Harris made her ill-fated trip to Mexico and Guatemala, she talked about dealing with the “root causes” of illegal immigration. She repeated the term so often even her devoted mainstream media mavens grew weary of hearing it. If our vice president and her party are truly interested in dealing with the “root causes” of the problems facing our country, fatherlessness should be at the top of their to-do list. Solve the fatherless problem, and you go a long way toward solving other domestic problems.
