- Educational opportunity and jobs access are largely place-based as a result of a long history of public policy choices. This particularly hurts working class urban African Americans and their chances for intergenerational mobility.
- Family policy has more recently sought to engage and support fathers, guided by a notion of "mutual and interlocking responsibility" of government and fathers advocated by the Responsible Fatherhood movement.
- Research has proven that punitive policies and regulations do not work. Instead, the focus should be on supporting men to develop the capacity to fulfill their fatherhood aspirations.
- Many prevailing perpections about unmarried, low-income parents or "fragile families" are not true. For example, non-marital births are usually not the product of casual relations, and unwed parents are not apathetic to marriage.
- Fathering from prison and upon return present exceptional challenges that disproportionately affect black males. Yet promising solutions exist, including education and reintegration programs and policy change.
Published by
- JustPartners, Inc.
- Bouchet and Associates Strategic Consulting