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.
Shannon Osaka, The Washington Post
Madison Colombo, Fox News
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