Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/06/16/who-needs-a-father/ Alexander's Essay – June 16, 2011 Who Needs a Father? 'It Just Takes a Village' to Raise a Child, Right? "It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." --James Wilson In 1996, Hillary Rodham Clinton published "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us," in which she asserted that organizations outside the family could meet the needs of children, and that society, her euphe...