Rep. Owens introduces resolution promoting fatherhood, 'vital' role it plays for children
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Republican Rep. Burgess Owens is introducing a resolution promoting fatherhood which he says leads to economic prosperity, especially in the black community.
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Owens, a former Super Bowl champion safety in the NFL, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he has witnessed firsthand how the disintegration of the nuclear family and fathers not being present has negatively affected the black community and hopes to help address that issue with this resolution.
"In the 60s when I was growing up as a youngster," Owens explained. "Our community was one of the most prosperous, when I say prosperous I mean patriotic, believing in America, entrepreneurial, and we just believed in meritocracy, so we had families and in those days 70% of the men were married to the mothers of their children. We had the highest percentage of black men and boys going to college."
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