"Do you think fathers are necessary?"

Do you think fathers are necessary or >> [music] >> could society replace that role? >> I don't think that they're necessary for everybody. >> Uh, not really. >> Not really, why? >> Cuz I don't have one myself. >> I'm sure I could have done great with perhaps two loving mothers. >> Being a girl, every girl needs her dad

to love and to be loved and to know what love means. >> For me, I definitely couldn't imagine life without my father. >> If you had to guess, you know, on average, how many kids like you grew up without [music] a father in the home? >> Uh, probably like 70%. >> 15, 10.

>> Oh, I don't know, like 25. >> Oh, wow, yes, it's actually 25%. [music] One in four children in America grew up without a father. Among black Americans is higher, it's 50%, but Americans overall is 25%. [music] Kids who grew up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty, five times

more likely to commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, 20 times more likely to end up in prison. So, do you think fathers are necessary? >> Oh, yeah.