Father absence decimates black community in U.S. By Joyce Kelly :: Reuters

"CHICAGO (Reuters) - For Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith in the movie 'The Pursuit of Happyness,' fatherhood is the greatest job in the world.
'There's no pay. There are no benefits. You don't get time off. You don't get a break,' he said. 'But once in a while you get to see your child shine and you say to yourself, 'That's my boy. That's my girl.''
It is also a job that Gardner and others believe is increasingly in trouble in the United States, even as the country gives its annual Fathers Day salute on June 17.
More than 19 million children -- about one in four -- were living in households where no father, biological or other, was present, according to a Census Bureau report in 2005."

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