William Bennett put is succinctly in a 1986 speech on the family in Chicago when he asked, “Where are the fathers? ... Generally, the mothers are there struggling. For nine out of ten children in single parent homes, the father is the one who isn’t there. One-fifth of all American children live in homes without fathers ... Where are the fathers? Where are the men? Wherever they are, this much is clear: too many are not with their children.

Children at Risk, J. Dobson and G. Bauer, Word, 1990, p. 167