Heritage Explains: The Crisis of Fatherless Shooters

COMMENTARY Marriage and Family

Heritage Explains: The Crisis of Fatherless Shooters

Mar 30, 2018 1 min read
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Former Digital Content Manager, Digital Productions

Michelle Cordero was a digital content manager at The Heritage Foundation.
It is time to talk about not just how to protect students from shooters, but also about what must happen so that fewer students become shooters in the first place. iStock / Getty Images Plus

This week on Heritage’s “Mass Ave” podcast, Emilie Kao, director of Heritage’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center, explains why fathers matter when it comes to preventing mass school shootings. 

Show Notes: Read Kao's op-ed on what society and congress can do to begin fixing this crisis and three common traits of a school shooter.

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