We Need Fathers!

[470 words] The TV show “60 Minutes” ran a segment that revealed some disturbing news. Park rangers at a South African wildlife preserve were concerned about the slaughter of 39 rare white rhinos. It turned out that the rhinos were killed not by poachers but rather by juvenile delinquents. You see the story began a decade ago when the park could no longer sustain the increasing population of elephants. They decided to control the herds by killing many of the dominant males whose young were old enough to survive without them. As a result, many of the young elephants grew up fatherless and without the presence of male leadership. As time went on, researchers observed that many of these young elephants began roaming together in packs and began to do things elephants do not normally do in nature. They threw sticks and water at the rhinos and acted like neighborhood…