As a foster parent in the DYFS system, I can tell you that
of 30 children that we have fostered, there has never been
a father involved, ever! It is simply taken for granted that
there is no father involved.

Why this is a short-run problem is because in an effort to get more children adopted from the foster situation to a permanent home, the family court requires the termination of the parent's rights. This can take a while, sometimes years. Years make a chid less attractive in the adoption sweepstakes. The child pays yet again.

Consider one child we had. DYFS and the case worker were moving this child toward adoption and needed to terminate the father's rights. The mother did not have a good idea of who the father was, so they had to do four paternity tests: two years later, still no father. This is truly a child in limbo.

Only a foolish man would marry a woman in today's divorce-driven legal environment. It is far less of a risk to have children out of wedlock and only risk child support than marry and risk loss of one's house, retirement, business and inheritance as well as loss of one's children and added to that suffer judge-manufactured putative income upon which an impossible child support payment will be based after you have already been wiped out in the divorce. Divorce is merely the transformation of marriage into retroactive prostitution, and marriage is only pre-divorce for most men. So most men now just buy sex up front and accept the reality that some other man will resentfully raise their children. After all it is legally easier to live with a woman and raise someone else's kids badly than to see your own kid and help raise him well.

The solution to the problem of fatherless children is the
opinion of men. There are few more powerful motivations in the average male's psyche than the opinion of other men. The requisite for manhood in society from the lowest to the highest must be changed from empty "studhood."

Most primitive societies require a man to provide for and
protect his family. Today the male who conceives a child
and walks away becomes invisible, when he should be
held in disgrace and derision by other men. The state
steps in, supports his child, and our society is the poorer
for it.

There are many hurtful epithets hurled at unwed mothers
but the lexicon contains very few for the male. Let me coin
a suitable epithet: dildo. As an object whose only use is
for sexual stimulation it separates him from humanity to
say nothing of most animals.