The Problem of Fatherlessness in Society
I remember about nine years ago reading the horrific story of how a then 15-year-old boy in Britain stabbed his teacher to death in front of his classmates. One ambulance driver who was called to the scene stated that he had never seen anything as brutal as what he had witnessed that day. The story was front-page news across Britain as people were shocked by what took place in that school in Leeds. But as I read this something struck me about how people were saying he had in the past been a model student and described as āamicable, enthusiastic and conscientiousā. There was the suggestion that things started to change for the boy when he was diagnosed with diabetes. Maybe that was true. But I wondered if there was more to this story, and it took a bit of research before I found an article, which stated the unnamed boy had come from a divorced home. In years past, husbands and wives would tough it out and stay together for the sake of the …