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See my post #14. Though I didn't read the whole story, the fact that he was alone in his praise of his father told me that there was no husband/father living with his mother. And if this father left his wife & children b/4 Kevin's first birthday, well, that's abandonment, and there's nothing good I can say about the father. A big whoop/snarc for the father for reconciling with Kevin when he was 13. In the meantime, his wife gets the sole responsibility for the future of THEIR children..the responsibility, expense and all the work is on HER shoulders. Enough said about the “father.”

Irresponsible fathers and mothers know no color. In the case of Blacks, check the number of fathers who abandon their children, or births to unwed mothers. It's a generational way of life for many, in that the state pays for your irresponsible behavior, from one generation to another, and your continue the behavior, because it's easy money and that's exactly what you want. The black culture has to return to a time in their history when religious education and a moral lifestyle was important. Where there was a married mother and father in the family...where the man upheld his responsibility to his wife and children, and the mother did the same. Where the father and mother were faithful to each other, out of love and respect for themselves and each other. Today, it's all about do what feels good, let someone else pay for it, let's just shuck and jive and get over on everyone else, and to hell with morals and respect of self or anyone else. I might also add that today men either are faithful to their wives & families, or they're married but unfaithful, or they just leave when the going gets tough and to hell with what they leave behind them. I can only hope and pray that the moral pendulum will swing the other way in time, and we will return once again to a moral, responsible society of the 40s and the years prior. It's not easy, but it does depend on how you want to live your life and if you have what it takes to make a success of it. For those of us who have lived in those years, we can say they were “the best years of our lives.”