It is no secret that today's African American family unit suffers greatly from a lack of positive male influences. Single mother households are unfortunately all too commonplace. Compounding the father-child relationship is the poor relationship between mother and father. With derogatives like, "baby-mamma-drama", and "baby-daddy", firmly entrenched in the black family vocabulary, children undoubtedly form negative connotations of their parents love for each other, and subsequently, their love for them!
