Rooftop Pastor Decries Nation’s Cycle of Fatherlessness

Chicago’s Rooftop Pastor Corey Brooks in his 40th day of protesting bloody violence in the Windy City cried out like John the Baptist to his fellow South Siders to “Break the Cycle of Fatherlessness”. Yet don’t think it’s just a “black” problem, he warned, since the absentee pandemic has hit all races as progressives’ anti-family policies are color blind.

One Florida businessman who joined Pastor Corey Brooks on the rooftop did so only partly to raise money for a new community center that would help him fight the daily violence in the streets; he also wanted to lend moral support to the call for Pastor Brooks’ “family first” agenda: “I’m here to help … because you [pastor] are one of the few voices that I’ve heard that is brave enough to stand up and state the importance of family, fatherhood for all communities, not just the black community,” the businessman told Fox News. “It is important that we recognize that our culture and many of the leading institutions have been antagonistic to the family and we see the results of that.”

As Fox noted, “while the number of fatherless children remains unacceptably high among blacks nationwide at approximately 56% [per Census Bureau], the numbers have risen significantly for other races,” i.e., about 31% of Hispanic children and about 21% of white kids do not live with their biological fathers. And Dads DO make a big difference, the heroics of single parent mothers notwithstanding. One old DOJ report that needs updating had concluded children from fatherless homes accounted for 65% of youth suicides, 90% of runaways, 71% of school dropouts, 75% institutionalized and/or addicted. Concluded Pastor Brooks: This terrible example of abandonment … is crushing for children … it causes them to seek other support [systems] and so many of them end up in gangs. It’s a disaster.”

Davd Soul