http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/we-black-men-must-reclaim-our-children/ Ramblings From The Nature Paradise of Dominica Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/we-black-men-must-reclaim-our-children/#comment-9282 Dan Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:08:42 +0000 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/we-black-men-must-reclaim-our-children/#comment-9282 Chris, I did not know that your father passed away when you were only five years old. Mine died when I was 12, and my younger brothers were only 7 and 6. I have seen others who managed to be raised, with difficulty and hardship, by a widowed mother or by a widower father when it is the mother who has died. I think that the point is the willingness of the couple to have married and had a family together; it is af the bond of love endures and provides benefits that survive the death of a parent. The trouble comes when a parent, almost always the man, simply never cared at all about the child or the mother. Chris, I did not know that your father passed away when you were only five years old. Mine died when I was 12, and my younger brothers were only 7 and 6. I have seen others who managed to be raised, with difficulty and hardship, by a widowed mother or by a widower father when it is the mother who has died. I think that the point is the willingness of the couple to have married and had a family together; it is af the bond of love endures and provides benefits that survive the death of a parent. The trouble comes when a parent, almost always the man, simply never cared at all about the child or the mother.

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