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I just happened to read a story where an Asian was killed while two blacks trying to steal laptop from him https://abc7news.com/5811847

The story mentioned one suspect's sister saying " I have 4 kids and no daddy in their lives ". I simply can't understand this. One kid , I can understand. But four? ... Four (Add: non has daddy present)? I just have too many questions.

Add: I interpreted "no daddy in their lives" as they never had a daddy present ever. This could be my mistake.

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Woman and man get four kids together. Man dies or dissappears for some other reason. How is that hard to understand? Or did some racial bias make you assume that all the four kids had different fathers?

I don't know. "no daddy in their lives" makes me interpret differently. I guess.

OK. I just figured out. I interpret "no daddy in their lives" as they never had a daddy present ever. This could be my mistake.

Humans, like all surviving animals, have a strong reproductive instinct, as required by evolution. Thus, many women have children.

Ignoring the other possibilities, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth

I wonder if you would feel the same way if it was a good Middle American Catholic Family....

"and no daddy in their lives". I thought the context was obvious.

You can't understand someone having four kids?

No. Non of them has father present. I thought the context was obvious.

Currently, no. We don't know what the situation was like when they were having kids.

The dad (or dads) might not be around for a lot of reasons. Maybe they divorced five years after the last kid was born, maybe he got arrested, maybe he died.

Four kids as a baby mama, I'm guessing. A couple with an extended family can handle four kids, but an individual who may not be all that tight with anyone who can keep an eye on the kids... Well, chances are they'll fail at a lot of important things.

"Two blacks"

You're seriously just going to identity people by their color of their skin?

Interesting how you skipped past "an Asian" just a few words earlier in the sentence.

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