Dads are great-but the problem can't be reduced to "where are the dads?" In the black and brown community(and among poor whites, where this happens with equal frequency), the main reason for the incidence of single-parent families is not black men not giving a crap about their kids-they care about their kids as much as dads of any other color do- but the brainless and pointlessly punitive rules attached to social welfare programs- programs which had to be put in place due to the consequences of the government policy of redlining, which destroyed the economies of most black neighborhoods by ordering banks and insurers not to offer loans and credit in black and brown neighborhoods, thus making it impossible for small businesses to open and survive in those neighborhoods- rules which left black and brown and poor white people with the terrible choice of either two parents in the home or three square meals a day for the kids. It was never an option for the people in those neighborhoods to be able to survive in post-redlined neighborhoods without accepting social assistance, and people with no money never had the option of traveling elsewhere to look for work, since you can't travel elsewhere if you have no money for bus fare, no money to get food along the way, no money to have a place to stay, take a shower and wash your clothes in order to be presentable enough to have a chance of getting a job. And the black community is already doing everything it can to try to get dads in the home and keep families together, so lecturing them on that is pointless.