‘Absentee fathers to blame for gang culture in black communities’
Young black men without fathers are being drawn into gang culture because they have grown up without positive role models, an author and educational consultant has said.
Tony Sewell, a former member of the Youth Justice Board, said he spoke in detail to a number of black youths to discover why knife crime “excessively affects a particular community”.
He found that overwhelmingly, “their problems started when their fathers left the home, while others were haunted by the fathers they never knew”....