I can't bear the thought of an emotionally unstable rapist. Please, for the sake of your daughter's rapist's mental health, don't leave your little boys fatherless.

So, what about the more even-tempered rapists?

Hm. Wonder what he says about the 30-40% of homeless youth who were kicked out for being glbtq?

Wait a minute, I thought women brought rape upon themselves by the way they dress, or if they drink, or use birth control, or don't go to church, or if they have opinions of their own, or have jobs. Now we're supposed to be blaming fatherless men?

Get it straight, fundamentalists!

Since only 10-40% of rapes are reported to police, I wonder how Hutch comes by this figure, unless he's referring to himself.

@7,
Why not both?

So easier access to birth control and abortion will help decrease rape?

If I was a god, I would smite people way WAY more often than the current set of gods we got.

Yes, the guy is an asshole in general.

But what's the problem with him calling attention to societal problems associated with fathers who don't support or raise their children?

@ 10, the answer to that question lies in whether or not that stat is accurate. And how "rapist" is defined. I assume he's talking about convicted rapists, who are a minority of all rapists by most estimates.

I'm not going to bother fact-checking that myself. I'm juat going to assume that it's either mistaken or made up. That's how fundies usually make use of statistics.

@10,

Perhaps because he's also inclined to make up similar statistics for why lesbian and gay couples are unsuitable parents? Maybe because the actual important indicator for a child's success is whether the child has two parents, regardless of the parents' gender?

Dave & Matt,
I didn't view the video or verify the stat. And, I've never met or listened to Ken Hutcherson. That said, children growing up without a father is a grave problem in the USA. Beginning with the Moynihan Report (1965):

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412839-…

the effects of fatherless children is devastating particularly in the African-American community. This is widely known. In 65' when was it written over 50% of children in African-American households were growing up w/o a father in the household. Today the reliable figure is 72%. You can verify that.

In what I believe is the most important thing Obama said during the 08' campaign, was the disclosure of the plague of fatherless children in African-American homes. He remarked about the "hole-in-my-heart" regarding his own absentee father. And, on Father's Day no less.

So, while we can quibble with Hutcherson's stat/conclusion. I don't believe it lessens the urgency of believing and attempting to solve this catastrophic problem in the community of our African-American brethren. It affects us all, as Americans and humans. Take it seriously.

Replace fatherless with single parent, and you have an incredibly compelling argument for same sex families.

Replace fatherless with single parent (pretty damn sure that's what those statistics actually track), and you have an incredibly compelling argument for how same sex families will save us all.

@10: He's not doing this to help anybody, he's doing this to shame people.

"Rapists with anger problems" implies that there are rapists withOUT anger problems, too? Word salad FTW!

@19,

What about cold-blooded sociopaths? Are they angry?