Solving the nation’s violence problem starts with supporting fathers

Father’s Day has come and gone for another year, but fatherlessness remains a critical societal problem that none of our political or religious leaders seems willing to address, and the media sweep it under the rug.

In Baltimore, a prototypically shattered American city run by Democrats, prospects of even alleviating violent crime and the collapse of civil society seem to be hopeless: Homicides have been rising to the mid-300s every year, while nonfatal violence, often unmeasurable, seems to be permanently out of control.