Ask Dr. Helen: Does a Father-Free Home Breed Success — Or Just Power-Hungry Politicians?
An interesting, true, story: a zoo was having problems with its elephant herd, having only one matriarch and a bunch of young males. The young males would tear up the place and generally create havoc. The zoo finally brought in an older male elephant who took it upon himself to put the young ‘uns in their place; things calmed down considerably thereafter.
All I can do is look back at my own family history. For as far back as I have been able to find – at least 10 generations – my forefathers have stayed with the family (excepting, of course, war and such) and been good fathers. We have had practially no divorces, no murderers, no criminals. Nobody’s been extremely rich or powerful, but nobody’s been extremely bad off either.





