Last night in Whitehorse, The Current held a special Town Hall, called Father’s without Fathers, Aboriginal Men in Canada. We aired a sample, hearing from Joe Migwans, of the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre in Whitehorse. You can hear from him tomorrow, when we devote the entire program to the Town Hall.

In Canada, 70 per cent of all single family aboriginal homes are headed by women. We’ve known that for some time. But few people have asked – where exactly are the men? Why aren’t the fathers at home? In the United States, research also shows a troubling trend of fatherless families – especially among African Americans.

In the U.S., 64 percent of black children live in homes without a father. That’s nearly 2 out of 3 kids. However, the will to do something about it goes as high as the Oval office. We aired a clip with then Senator Barack Obama addressing the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, on June 15, 2008 – father’s day. Today, President Obama is behind a national initiative to bring fathers back home.