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In a recent television appearance, I discussed my appointment to a presidential commission called "The Social Status of Black Men and Black Boys." I called fatherless households America's top domestic problem, a particularly severe phenomenon in the Black community where nearly 70 percent of kids begin their lives in households with unmarried mothers. I then received the following letter: "Dear Mr. Elder: "I saw your interview today. ... I wanted to share some information about this. "In the summer of 1969, I was a first-year obstetrics and gynecology resident at a hospital in New Orleans. I do not know if...