Foolishness

"It is a wise father that knows his own child," penned William Shakespeare 400 hundred years ago. Foolish men don’t spend enough time to know or educate their children. We are a nation responsible for an out-of-wedlock birth rate of 38%. For whites it’s 28%, for Hispanics, 50% and for blacks, 71%. Children are raised fatherless in 22% of white households, 31% of Hispanics and 56% of blacks. Trying to put a positive spin on the data, at least there is a lower percentage between creating bastards and actually paying attention to them after they are born. Nevertheless, foolishness, a characteristic of immaturity, rules the world of procreation. A conservative talk-radio host described a politician as a person who masters the art of "saying nothing of substance at great length." Fatherhood now has become an art form of doing nothing substantially manly repeatedly. Devotion to duty? Respect for motherhood? Responsibility after the creation of life? Aw shucks! It’s necessary to hearken back to the good ole’ days when sinning was marginalized and hypocrisy correctly defined. 1/3 of whites, ½ of Hispanics and 2/3 of blacks out to be ashamed. Happy father’s day to the respectable, self-righteous rest.