{"id":32246,"date":"2012-04-30T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/where_are_the_dads_treating_richmonds_fatherless_epidemic\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:06:32","slug":"where_are_the_dads_treating_richmonds_fatherless_epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32246","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the Dads? Treating Richmond&#39;s Fatherless Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers led [Donald ] Stern to the same &#8220;inescapable conclusion&#8221; made by scores of sociologists, pastors, and pundits observing the post-Jim Crow black family: &#8220;There is a crisis in gender relations in the African American community. This is a painful reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should a public health department\u201d\u201dperceived as a government monolith unqualified to counsel individual men and women\u201d\u201dtry to change citizens&#8217; gender relations, encouraging fidelity, responsibility, and stable two-parent families?<\/p>\n<p>When it costs a city $205 million every year in taxpayer dollars, say Stern and a number of Christians in Richmond, the answer is clear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/april\/fatherless-epidemic.html\">Read it all<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers led [Donald ] Stern to the same &#8220;inescapable conclusion&#8221; made by scores of sociologists, pastors, and pundits observing the post-Jim Crow black family: &#8220;There is a crisis in gender relations in the African American community. This is a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32246\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}