Absentee black fathers in Britain

BBC News:

The reasons some black men fail to help raise their children will be discussed at a national conference on fatherhood.

Research into absent black fathers will be presented at a Babyfather Initiative forum at the Fathers Direct conference being held in central London.

The problem of "babyfathers":

The term "babyfather" is Caribbean slang for a man who does not live with his children - who often have different mothers.

Research in 2002 showed more than half the heads of black Caribbean households with dependent children were lone parents.

And last March Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips implied some absent fathers were partially to blame for the under-achievement of black boys at school.

This also seems to be a problem common amongst black men in the United States.