We know this lady, who worked for 2 sheriff’s departments to monitor and help children in broken homes. She did this for 30+ years.
According to her anyhome without a father/male figure often put the kids at risk.
She said the most dangerous fatherless home, was one where a man, who was not the father and in particular at a home where the male was abusive and used alcohol and drugs on a regular basis. These so called adult males often hated the children of other men.
In summary:
Besides (1) the “absent father”
a “fatherless home” sometimes has
(2) an occupant-Male but in terms of the children’s emotional and instructional needs is actually absent,
Often the occupant male is (3) a bad (abusive, alcoholic, drug addict, criminal) person. Having that type of occupant-male/father was often worse than a father who was not there at all.
This woman blamed LBJ and his Great Society which destroyed more families than helping them.
There was little that was “great” about the “great society” besides the great amount of spending it involved.