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father
History a senator or patrician in ancient Rome

Father
1. God, esp when considered as the first person of the Christian Trinity
2. any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
3. a title used for Christian priests


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In the black community, boys are the very embodiment of "at risk," with a 70 percent illegitimacy rate and fatherlessness a deadly, if quiet, assault, killing less like a bombing raid than a nuclear winter.
Fatherlessness is linked to poverty, soaring school-dropout rates, crime, adolescent drug use and teenage pregnancy.
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