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[serialposts]As I read through this chapter, I couldn't help but to revisit my adolescence. Growing up, most gang members I knew and befriended were cool, quite funny, and often even sentimental. Definitely different than the picture you see painted in music videos,...

[serialposts] The fallout from fatherlessness is more than an individual tragedy.  It impacts more than the fractured family, the single mother and her children.  Fatherlessness is a catastrophic wreck that is poisoning our families, communities, and nation.  No one...

[serialposts] Each of us has this visceral longing, a primal urge to be accepted by our father and to make him proud. This urge is something like hunger or the need for sleep - it stays with us our entire lives. When Dad is not around, this urge becomes a haunting....