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Our compassion must extend to the poor and to the fatherless.
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.
It's a culture that traps the poor in isolated, fatherless ghettos.
The metaphor undermines the Losing Ground Murray, the guy who writes that "[u]ntil the government began masking the social costs created by large numbers of fatherless children, civilized communities everywhere stigmatized illegitimacy."
Bono has left her newly fatherless seven-year-old and nine-year-old in school back in California while she came to Washington to raise money for her campaign to win her late husband's congressional seat.