I have appeared in hundreds of juvenile cases where kids were in trouble with the law. The one constant was this: out of all of these cases I can count on one hand the number of times that a kid lived with both of his biological parents. It is the elephant in the room.
I have appeared in hundreds of juvenile cases where kids were in trouble with the law. The one constant was this: out of all of these cases I can count on one hand the number of times that a kid lived with both of his biological parents. It is the elephant in the room.Years ago I was on a citizens committee here and a new member joined who had just retired from the Juvenile Justice system. He said of the many thousands incarcerated in the system at his retirement, one of them - ONE OF THEM - was from an intact, original family.
I have appeared in hundreds of juvenile cases where kids were in trouble with the law. The one constant was this: out of all of these cases I can count on one hand the number of times that a kid lived with both of his biological parents. It is the elephant in the room.Years ago I was on a citizens committee here and a new member joined who had just retired from the Juvenile Justice system. He said of the many thousands incarcerated in the system at his retirement, one of them - ONE OF THEM - was from an intact, original family.
My brother and I were raised by a single mother.
My father died when we were 5 and 2 and my mother never re-married.There was very little money.
What about people like us?
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“I can count on one hand the number of times that a kid lived with both of his biological parents. It is the elephant in the room.”
Actually this was widely discussed in terms of the prison population for several years; even Je$$e Jackson used to lecture young blacks about it (until he had his own “love child” and had to abdicate the throne to Al Sharpton as “King Of All Blacks”).