GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy brought attention to the crisis of fatherlessness in America during the first presidential debate, garnering praise from conservatives for highlighting a major problem facing the nation.
“The word ‘privilege’ gets used a lot,” Mr. Ramaswamy said during the Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee. “Well, you know what? I did have the ultimate privilege of two parents in the house with a focus on educational achievement, and I want every kid to enjoy that. So, part of the problem is we also have a federal government that pays single women more not to have a man in the house than to have a man in the house, contributing to an epidemic of fatherlessness.”
