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Why Have All the Fathers Gone--and Will They Come Back? |
| Section: LIFE / FAMILY |
| Author: Interview With David Blankenhorn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 3,680 Words, 21,653 Characters |
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THE WORLD & I: Let's begin by talking about the state of American fatherhood.
David Blankenhorn: There is a crisis of fatherhood in America today. In fact, I believe that the most socially consequential family trend of our time is fatherlessness, that is, male absence from family life. We are in a situation where one-third of the American children are living apart from their fathers--and if the patterns we are seeing contiue, roughly half of all the American children alive today will spend a significant part of their childhoods living apart from their fathers. Thus, living without a father is approaching a rough parity with having a father as an experience of childhood.
We spent the 1970s and '80s in the family debate focusing mostly on the roles of women and the condition of chi...
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...elf come from a background that includes some academic study, but also a history as a community organizer working in poor communities. At the time I began the institute, I wanted to create a think tank that would provide an ideological framework for the community-organizing movement. It was gradual immersion in literature on the family that led me to a more academic pursuit of family issues.
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