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Q The rhetoric of the ‘absentee black father’ is one of the many culture of poverty arguments that points to things other than systemic factors to answer the question of why there is racial wealth disparity in this country. Sociology can ask the question in a scientific way: Are black fathers less attentive/engaged with their children when compared to other racial and ethnic groups?

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For this week’s blog, I have chosen this precise prompt, which I believe is very much relevant in the contemporary American society. After the going through the statistics presented by the National Center for Health Statistics, it has been understood that the percentage of involvement of the black father is not at all disappointing. However, I have found an online newspaper article named – “Black Dads are Doing Best of All” where the author successfully challenges the stereotype that says black fathers are most of the time pathologically prone to pursue desertion for their offspring and they are henceforth very much responsible for the attribute called – “dysfunction” attached with the black community.