BROKEN HOMES WITHOUT DADS
"Broken homes without dads," are surely contributory to more American dilemmas than just school shootings, as certain politicians have noticed.
In the slavery era it was quite common for " broken homes without dads" to exist. Black people were chattels, mere property like cattle , horses, chickens, who were sold away or given away. We were deemed less than fully human and not "persons" in the constitution.
A Civil War changed that classification, chattel, if not black characterizations at law, as non-persons, non-citizens.
So we next evolved to being denizens, second class citizens, until this post-Reconstruction delusion dissipated too with many brilliant civil rights victories.
But, since the 1960s, in the northern ghettos, "broken homes without dads" resurged by virtue of government laws and policies precipitating the return of that social pathology. But pathologies spread, like influenza across America.
Whatever is over here is as surely over there, owing to media and socialization of diversities in one nation. Now, that "broken homes without dads" has hit the whites' society also, the sociology of this "broken homes without dads" epidemic may be addressed seriously by its societal enablers, the politicians.
Very sad indeed.
But having my father home with us was of incalculable benefit to me and my siblings' development. So much was this so, that when my first wife left, I remained primary custodian of our son in the divorce decree. My son would know no other man as daddy but me!
Monday, February 26, 2018
BROKEN HOMES WITHOUT DADS
BROKEN HOMES WITHOUT DADS
"Broken homes without dads," are surely contributory to more American dilemmas than just school shootings, as certain politicians have noticed.
In the slavery era it was quite common for " broken homes without dads" to exist. Black people were chattels, mere property like cattle , horses, chickens, who were sold away or given away. We were deemed less than fully human and not "persons" in the constitution.
A Civil War changed that classification, chattel, if not black characterizations at law, as non-persons, non-citizens.
So we next evolved to being denizens, second class citizens, until this post-Reconstruction delusion dissipated too with many brilliant civil rights victories.
But, since the 1960s, in the northern ghettos, "broken homes without dads" resurged by virtue of government laws and policies precipitating the return of that social pathology. But pathologies spread, like influenza across America.
Whatever is over here is as surely over there, owing to media and socialization of diversities in one nation. Now, that "broken homes without dads" has hit the whites' society also, the sociology of this "broken homes without dads" epidemic may be addressed seriously by its societal enablers, the politicians.
Very sad indeed.
But having my father home with us was of incalculable benefit to me and my siblings' development. So much was this so, that when my first wife left, I remained primary custodian of our son in the divorce decree. My son would know no other man as daddy but me!