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The women DeParle dwells on are poster children for irresponsibility as a lifestyle: At every turn there are unexpected pregnancies, out of wedlock fatherless children, and abusive-cum-substance-abusive-cum-mooching boyfriends.
"What tedious work it is," confessed a spinster aunt tending to her fatherless nieces and nephews in 1860.
Eventually, communities of fatherless welfare families will become communities of intact, working families.
It's a culture that traps the poor in isolated, fatherless ghettos.
According to McCabe, the need to support his fatherless family, not vain hopes of becoming a star, is what drove him.