The grim statistics stacked up against young men from fatherless homes, as Tramain Rayford sees it, are as daunting as they are defiable.
Mr. Rayford can rattle off figures from memory: 85 percent of incarcerated youths come from fatherless households, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children don’t have fathers, and 63 percent of youth suicides occur in absent-father homes.
“Youths growing up without fathers are 279 percent more likely to pick up a gun or drugs,” he added. “I can do data all day long.”…