'I wrote the book on black fatherhood'
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Mar 06, 2019
2 minutes
I wrote the book on black fatherhood. Literally.
"Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood" was a deep dive into the absence and uninvolvement of African-American fathers in the lives of their children. Like many observers, I inferred that absence and uninvolvement from statistics showing a decline in marriage among African Americans so that the average black baby was now born to an unwed
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