J. R. Woodgates

America’s burgeoning prison population is not being fed just by the “overcriminalization” of our society, with its growing list of felony crimes.

The increasing problem of single-parent households is also creating generations of young men without a strong fatherly influence.

Growing up in a fatherless home is a major predictor of truancy, delinquency and eventual incarceration.

Once thought of mainly as “a black problem,” illegitimate births are now common in all three American racial groups: more than one third of all white babies, more than half of all hispanic babies and nearly three-quarters of all black babies.

Conservative pundit George Will reminds us of the prescient warning given to us a half century ago by the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan:

WHY TWO PARENTS ARE BETTER THAN ONE