The absence of black fathers in the home 16 Articles

by Marcus Brooks

We've watched the daytime, talk shows. Around 2:00 PM central time, Maury Povich proclaimed "You are the father! You are not the father!" Distraught couples are put through this chaos to get the question answered. But,...read more

by S. K. Greaves

Nothing compares to a black child who is robbed of a life without a father. As if dealing with the realities of society wasn't enough, they now have to experience life without the luxury of knowing and having both parents ...read more

by Mighty-Pen

This is a big problem in our society. I do believe that it is more prevalent in my black culture. I believe there are several reasons why that is so. One reason is an eroding of our core values. We have placed more emp...read more

by Rebecca Williams

The absence of black fathers in the home has become an epidemic, that only thing that will end this bitter cycle is prayer, understanding and realization from our black men that family is a beautiful thing we as a whole pa...read more

by Rhonica Wesley

The absence of black fathers in the home is said to be the number one cause for African Americans having the highest percentage of people subjective to poverty. The percentage of children living in two-parent homes has ris...read more

by Raymond Epps

Raymond Epps- NO FATHER DAY CARDS/I WAS NOT THERE! I have Four boys and one daughter or maybe I should say I know five adults who call me their dad. I have never received a Fathers day card.Let me clarify none of them c...read more

by Tye Holland

The African-American dynamic of single parent homes are increasing daily. Women are more commonly raising their children without fathers. It is hard to find the reasoning behind why so many men walk away from the responsib...read more

by Shannon Rayford

I use to think that the absentee father was something rather new in African American culture, but historically it is not. When African American's were slaves they faced two feats that would seperate them from the typical ...read more

by POETRY JONES

For you, to not have a father, is something very troubling to a young mind. I had five brothers and the two oldest ones, would play a father role to me. Although, I don't think it would feel the same, as having a father ...read more

by Christopher Kendalls

We need black fathers in the home, desperately, you do not understand the magnitude of sadness I experience to see the joy in the face of an African-American toddler simply to see another Black man; though they have no rea...read more

by Devann Sago

Every single day at 5 o'clock p.m.(it depends on your time zone) people around the country turn on their televisions to Maury just to hear,"I am one-hundred and twenty-five percent sure that he is the father." By this poin...read more

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by Rita Joyce

There used to be jokes about how Black women have children: "Oh, maybe they really do get their babies from storks; maybe they grow them out in the cabbage-patches; maybe Black women drink some kind of special, magical eli...read more

by Shernite Arnold

The system of social constraints is one that prohibits success and benevolence within a group of people , but it seems that the African American community aids in this system by the absence of the male model.The deteriora...read more

by blaquote

I truly believe in the sanctity of family. The ultimate betrayal is my reality. The reasoning of my heart wrenching agony, the explanation of my discontent, the level of my resentment, can only be found in the ey...read more

by Natalie Crawford-Jones

The topic of absent fathers in the Black community is a sad one indeed; in fact it is endless. If I had to cite a reason for it I would have to point to the woman first, but not last. Willingly I risk being stoned upon mak...read more

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by Candy Jules

Why are the black fathers being targeted for not being in the home to raise their children? As I recall, my children's father,s weren't in the home either, by the way, my children are white, with white fathers, and they go...read more