A Father’s Day problem in the working class

Published June 17, 2018 4:01am ET



The plight of inner-city blacks that Patrick Moynihan chronicled in his 1965 paper The Negro Family is now the plight of middle-America working-class whites. The typical child born to white parents without a college degree is growing up without the benefit of married parents at home.

You could say there’s a fatherhood crisis in Trump Country.

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