Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks says America is facing an epidemic of fatherlessness and says what the country needs to be preaching is husbands in marriage and fathers in the home.

Children growing up without fathers in the home is one of the most serious crises facing America today. The impact is devastating on spiritual, religious, and material levels. Over 80 percent of the children in my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago do not have a father, but this not something that can be just dismissed as a "Black thing." It is an American epidemic.

Across the nation, 56 percent of Black children do not have a father in the home. For Latinos that number has risen to 31 percent and for whites, 21 percent. Those figures are only snapshots and the reality is that they are getting worse, not better, with every passing year.

For perspective, 89 percent of the "post-war generation," including most Black families I know, had children living in homes with a mother and a father. That number has fallen to 68% today among all American families. That’s millions of children being affected.

SCHOOLS ALL OVER AMERICA ARE FAILING OUR KIDS. PARENTS, THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU

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