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006cb1b The majority of us were from single parent family homes. You could have counted the fellas on your fingers that had a mummy and a daddy at home. Anthony 'Ada' Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders at-risk-communities at-risk-youth dead-beat-dads fatherless-homes gang-intervention gang-members gang-prevention gangsters law-enforcement rebellion-raiders single-mothers single-parents social-ills youth-outreach youth-programs Drexel Deal
5bfdff8 90% of us came from single-parent homes who were in the gang. There was just a small 10% who had a mother and a father in the home. For a lot of us, we did not had that father or authority figure who could have intervened on our behalf. Where we could have said, 'You know, daddy, Johnny tried to rob me or Johnny just slapped me', and our father could have either taken us to the police station, or went to school with us to address the issue. So we had to defend for ourselves. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader at-risk-communities at-risk-youth authority-figure crime-prevention father-figure fatherless-homes gang-intervention gang-members police-station rebellion-raiders self-defense single-mothers single-parents Drexel Deal