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King Randall, founder of The X for Boys and The X for Boys Life Preparatory School in Albany, Georgia, is warning that a generational shift away from communal child-rearing has created a vacuum that social media personalities, gangs, and online influencers are rushing to fill.
Speaking ahead of Father's Day, Randall argues the crisis extends well beyond fatherlessness — it is a structural breakdown of the "village" networks that once distributed the work of raising children across multiple adults.
The Retreat from Community as a Systemic Risk Randall frames the problem in explicitly economic terms of social infrastructure.
Where previous generations of children were shaped by fathers, stepfathers, uncles, and grandfathers acting collectively, today's parents have retreated into a posture of exclusive authority — a shift he links directly to ego and a reluctance to admit gaps in their own knowledge.
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