Here is a different context for thinking about Leonard Pitts' thoughts on children growing up without a father image, which is not‚ "PC" but I think the right context for us to view the aspects of women having babies without fathers being around to support the child financially and emotionally, etc. Perhaps he will not like the idea I think is in the back of his mind, but it is in the back of a lot of black people's minds ‚Äì listen to Bill Crosby, et al.

In the February, 1963 issue of ONE Magazine, the first public publication to deal with homosexuality, the editor, Don Slater (co-founder of ONE, Inc and the Homosexual Information Center and one of the best‚ "thinkers" on issues of homosexuality) wrote the editorial that discussed the then issue of over population. His thinking was that if people are concerned with too many babies being born, homosexual behavior is a form of natural birth control. And it is time to say that sex acts are not just for procreation, but can be just for pleasure, comfort, etc.

Now today I don't hear much about over population, except of certain religious or racial populations. I hear that the (white) populations in European countries are not staying level and they are being overrun with babies of Muslim households. And there may still be some people, who think that too many young black women are having babies and going on welfare and those babies, without a father's influence will end up criminals, on drugs and in prison. But if anyone is not aware of the facts, in America, the white and black populations are soon to be outnumbered by Asians and Mexicans/Hispanics. See California today.