BECOMING DAD: BLACK MEN AND THE JOURNEY TO FATHERHOOD African American Demographic Studies (Books) ISBN-13 : 978-1556520747

ISBN-13 : 978-1556520747

ISBN-10 : 0865432481

Updated edition (June 1

and insightful collection of short stories from National Book Award-winning author

Even her own sister

BECOMING DAD: BLACK MEN AND THE JOURNEY TO FATHERHOOD African American Demographic Studies (Books) ISBN-13 : 978-1556520747The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger proportions every year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in their homes. As this dire pattern grows worse, what can men do who hope to break it, when there are so few models and so little guidance in their own homes and communities? Where can they learn to "become Dad?" When Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Pitts who himself grew up with an abusive father whose