“More than 18,000 poor Buffalo children grow up without fathers…”
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Dante Brown is a playful, rambunctious toddler growing up on the city’s West Side.TraJanae Sanders is the same kind of kid, growing up on the East Side.
A lot separates these 2-year-olds, but in some important ways, their young lives already echo with similarity. Both are poor.
Both are being raised by young women who bore them as teenagers.
And neither child has a dad at home. Dante and TraJanae are two faces of a change that’s deeply affecting many neighborhoods in Buffalo — where today 43 percent of children live below the poverty line.
These two children, and at least 18,450 others in the city, are growing up in low-income homes headed by women alone. This is fatherless Buffalo.
The disintegration of the two-parent family in poor city neighborhoods, many people say, has contributed to the transformation of many once-vital streets into poverty-racked places where low-rent apartments fill with the same kinds of occupants:
Single mothers with young children. Fathers, here, have largely vanished.
“He’s a joke to me now,” Dante Brown’s mother, Janelle Dzina, said about the father of Dante. He left Buffalo for Toronto when Janelle was four months’ pregnant.
“These men,” said Dzina, who also has a 1-year-old daughter, Maria Irizarry, “they don’t respect women.”
Read the rest…This story is about Buffalo, but it can apply anywhere.
Story hits close to home for me, it just pisses me off. I’m to the point where I really have little or no sympathy when I read these types of stories.
Too many young people, particularly minorities get caught up in this downward spiral and the rest of us I guess are suppose to feel bad and have compassion for these poor unfortunate souls.
The solution is simple, feel free to pass it on…
STOP FUCKING AND GET A GODDAMM EDUCATION!!!
“they don’t respect women.” No shit Dick Tracy! You could have come up with that little gem before you were being pounded into a headboard!
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