Cappadocia in Lowell: Move along, nothing to see here. As Cliff would say.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Move along, nothing to see here. As Cliff would say.

Music Matters: The Voice of the Fatherless in Hip-Hop

According to Harvard magazine, “Now 57 percent of women with high-school degrees or less education are unmarried when they bear their first child.” Ultimately and sadly, without the covenantal bonds of marriage many of these children will not know their fathers. Additionally, the overall divorce rate is hovering around 30% with African-American women exceeding that national average by 20%. Whites and African-Americans then can both easily identify their struggle in hip hop music, since it communicates the anguish, resentment and grief of life without a father.

Meanwhile at DCF, what do I mostly see? I see paternal abandonment as the trigger to many of the child's wounds.

3 comments:

C R KriegerJanuary 29, 2013 at 4:25 PM
I know it isn't exactly the correct solution, but I do think that for every live birth there should be a registered Father and Mother and the Commonwealth should create a legal responsibility of the Father toward the child, including a requirement to recognize birthdays and at least one winter holiday (e.g., Christmas or Kwanzaa). The registered Father shall have to receive and endorse all school report cards and shall provide money for college for when the child graduates from high school and enters college. The Father shall provide child support to the Mother.

Then there will be a legal connection that might have long term social consequences. Not marriage, but a legal connection.

Regards — Cliff
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ReneeJanuary 29, 2013 at 4:30 PM
http://www.mass.gov/dor/child-support/your-child-support/information-about-child-support/paternity-establishment/frequently-asked-questions.html

Affidavit of Paternit
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ReneeJanuary 29, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Affidavit of Paternity
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From a personal and local view, the observations of seeing a accelerated decline of things. The practice of our faith is being suppressed. Catholics are being forced further and further underground from public life or looking at our political state and throwing up our hands that it isn’t worth our souls to participate in such a corrupt system.

Cappadocia is a historic place in modern day Turkey. It’s where the early Christians hid from the Roman Empire, forming underground cities and churches out of caves.

Marriage from a child's point of view

This post was originally posted on my original blog "Up On Christian Hill" on February 14, 2007.Six years have passed, marriage in our present day has no interest in a child being raised and protected by both of her parents.

"While in high school and college, my peers always talked about their parents and their relationship with each other. Even though it was never considered a factor in success and happiness, we talked about gender, incomes, and race, even sexual orientation but never how marriage affected society in formal terms. Informally though I could tell you the lives of dozens of parents, because we spoke so much of them.

We talked about how well they got along with each other, if they fought, if they were divorced, remarried, abandoned us, and even if they smoked pot. Parents were important to us, even though educators, marketers, and counter sub-cultures wanted us to ignore what they represented to us. Back while a sophomore in college something changed in my view of social policy and family."