“The gangs filled a void in society, and the void was the absence of family life. The gang became a family. For some of those guys in the gang that was the only family they knew, because when their mothers had them they were too busy having children for other men. Some of them never knew their daddies. Their daddies never look back after they got their mothers pregnant, and those guys just grew up and they couldn’t relate to nobody. When they had their problems, who could they have talked to? Nobody would listen, so they gravitated together and form a gang. George Mackey, the former representative for the historic Fox Hill community in The Bahamas.” GovernmentFamilyEmptinessFatherhoodPoliticiansFamily LifeGangstersComing TogetherPolicy MakersGang MembersYouth MinistryHurting PeopleStreet LifeBroken HomesSingle MothersGangsSense Of BelongingGang InterventionAt Risk YouthYouth OutreachGang LifeEmpty NestFatherless HomesAbsentee FathersYouth ProgramsRepresentativeAt Risk CommunitiesGang PreventionSocial IllsVoid WithinDead Beat DadsYouth GroupsGang FamilyGang FormationHurting ChildrenMember Of ParliamentMissing In ActionYouth ClubYouth Problems Book:The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“I came from as low as one could come, with no mother and no father. So in return I build a family for myself and these fella’s were a part of my family. So I had to look out for them, as if I was looking out for my children. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members” FamilyMy FamilyMy ChildrenParenthoodFamily MembersGang MembersRebellion RaidersSingle MothersYouth OutreachGang LifeFatherless HomesAbsentee FathersSocial IllsLove OnesBroken Families Family LifeGang FormationNo FatherNo Mother Book:The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father