“No dads in the home = trouble.”
I seldom see kids except at the gym. My workout buddy pointed out three young men I’d never seen before and told me they’d been kicked off his son’s soccer team because they were arrested for smoking pot. One of the mothers worked at the gym and she’d made them come there so they wouldn’t be at home alone after school. What did they have in common? Black and fatherless.
At a park in South Africa they were having problems with the adolescent male elephants killing younger hippos. They brought in a bull elephant from another park. When the adolescents harassed the hippos the bull elephant smacked them around. The killing stopped.
It takes two parents (not a village) to raise a child and one of them must be male.
I read about that. Evidently the young bull elephants needed a male role model in order to learn proper male behavior.
Doesn’t apply to humans though, because we are too smart. /S
>> ... they were having problems with the adolescent male elephants killing younger hippos. They brought in a bull elephant from another park. When the adolescents harassed the hippos the bull elephant smacked them around. The killing stopped.
Anyone who has ever raised horses knows this - you bring in a mature gelding and he kicks the crap out of the young’uns. Literally.
Some years ago, a neighboring couple decided they were going to go into the horse breeding business.
They bought a young, high value stallion. The thing had never been socialized, had no manners, and would challenge you at the drop of a pin. They were repeatedly told: “Put him in the field with your geldings; they’ll straighten him out.” Having over $30,000 invested in the animal, they refused: “He’ll get hurt.”. After he charged and almost trampled the wife, they had him gelded.
He was still useless. They shoulda shot the damn thing and fed him to the lions in the zoo.