Mother absence matters just as much as father absence

Published August 13, 2019 5:44pm ET



Last week I was inundated with emails from people who stumbled upon an article I wrote for Fox News back in February 2018 about the Parkland school shooting (which I presume was resurrected due the more recent mass shootings), in which I point to fatherlessness as a major source of boys’ pain.

Many of the emails were from single mothers who, understandably, felt defensive—so much so they resorted to calling me racist for no reason.

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