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Amani - 53206
In many families of the Amani Neighborhood the father is missing.
He is too often missing because he is away INCARCERATED.
He is too often missing due to untimely deaths - self-, public- , law enforcement- and health-imposed.
Below are glaring points in the "About us" section of Milwaukee Father's Initiative.
Although father absence is now an epidemic affecting every class and sector of American society, its prevalence and impact within America’s urban communities is especially acute. At present:
Twenty-four million, or 34 percent of America’s children, live in a household in which the biological father does not live.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 50 percent of all white children and 75 percent of all black children born in the last two decades are likely to live for some portion of their childhood in a father-absent household.
In urban America, the numbers are often far higher. Whereas America has always experienced family fragmentation to some extent, today’s father absence is radically different in scale. We have moved from an occasional father-absent household to father-absent neighborhoods, where the absence, not the presence, of fathers has become the norm.
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