Cot damn...she is a hot mess. Whitney Houston has nothing on her. I wonder if she gets a DUI, but I doubt it, because she sure looks happy in the mug shot.
I hear that stat thrown around alot.......but I'm beginning to doubt its creditability. I'm of African descent.....and almost every black man I know had his father present in his life. Now, the father and mother may have been separated but nobody was running away. The percentage may be a bit misleading because I think it just deals with the household in which the child resides. It says nothing about a father who is active in the child's live, but may be living in another town or state.
If you the people you know are black as in 1st generation Nigerian-American, then I can totally can that. But if we're talking about black with a hundred years worth of roots in the U.S., then the numbers definitely support the absent father statistic. Look at Karl Malone as a small sample. He got some girl pregnant, and when he finally found out about the kid, told the kid to get lost and that it was too late for him to be his dad. Obviously, he is not representative of the whole. But if a guy of his magnitude and wealth isn't willing to support his own kid, then we might speculate that guys with significantly lower incomes and lifestyles will be willing to do even less. About your case for misleading stats, how can a father be reasonably active in his child's life when he is in another city or state? Even a phone call a week isn't going to cut it, if he manages that. As a psych major, I can tell you that the numbers don't look too good for kids who don't have an immediate, and physical paternal presence in their life.
