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America's crisis is a lack of fathers
Fox News
Father's Day will be celebrated this weekend. But millions of American kids are growing up without a fathers in the home and they face a host of problems.
There is little doubt that America is experiencing an unprecedented fatherless crisis. Republican Burgess Owens represents Utah's Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. He is a former Super Bowl champion who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders. Owens is author of "Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps" (Post Hill Press, July 19, 2016).
There is little doubt that America is experiencing an unprecedented fatherless crisis. Approximately 80% of single-parent homes are led by single mothers therefore leading to nearly 25% of our youth growing up without a father in the home.