A mother alone has a hard time teaching a boy to be a man, and teaching a girl how a man should treat her. The lack of fathers is the single greatest plague on the black community in this country, and its spreading.
SnakeDoc
“A mother alone has a hard time teaching a boy to be a man, and teaching a girl how a man should treat her. The lack of fathers is the single greatest plague on the black community in this country, and its spreading....”
This is so very true. My Dad died of a heart attack at age 51 years, and my Mom was left with 7 children, although only three were minors yet. Two others were still in post-HS education processes (a teacher and a radiologic tech). I was only 11 years old, and I still feel an emptiness when I think of my Dad’s death.
Only 17 years later, my sister (who was the RT) lost her husband in a small airplane crash. He was only 36 years old. She was living on the East coast and had five kids under age 14 years. She decided to move back to Minnesota where she had 2 brothers, 3 brothers-in-law (her husband’s brothers), plus some other in-law males such as husbands of siblings. Many of her friends on the East Coast asked her why she was moving; perhaps she was being too hasty. However, my sister was determined to raise her children where they would have adult male members of both families to advise them and who could be examples to her children of well-balanced men. It was a good decision. Her kids turned out great.
I agree, and the great psychiatrist Eric Berne agreed even more. He postulated a formula for the formation of a successful person:
Parent of opposite gender tells you what to do/be; parent of same gender shows you how.