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Better Men Make Better Fathers

6/20/10 USA Weekend—"It's circle time, elementary school style, but in this sunny classroom in Newark, it's not children but 30 men who stand in a tight circle. Most are ex-felons, some were gang members — all are fathers. The men range in age from 19 to 50. Sporting dreads and hip-hop headbands, they wear the tired expressions of men who have lived hard or hardly lived at all. This is Newark's Fathers Now (newarknow.org/fatherhood.html), a program that speaks to the heart of Mayor Cory Booker's initiatives to combat crime and recidivism in a city known for violence."

Available online

http://www.usaweekend.com/

Author(s)

Wendy Sachs

Date

6/20/10

Source

USA Weekend

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