J. R. Woodgates
Tag Archives: single-parent
He was convicted of white collar crime and sent to a federal prison where he’s remained for nine years…
…leaving her to raise their six children.
In some situations, especially in the federal system, men may have committed their crimes in another state…, so chances are very low that they can see their children…five to 10 states away, but Storybook offers a way to connect them by voice.
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: