Robin Wright King is an author living in Lathrup Village, Michigan. She holds a BS degree in Business Administration from Wayne State University and an MBA from the University of Detroit. Through her own experience, Robin Wright King highlights a catastrophic social and cultural issue plaguing the African American community: fatherless daughters.
Growing up without her father, who lived often within a five to ten mile radius, she longed to have the typical ‘father-daughter’ relationship. Her father chose, however, to have no involvement in her life. Reaching adulthood, she continued to be troubled by her fathers’ absence and began to study the father absence crisis in the United States. She was particularly interested in the impact that father absence has on African American women and girls. She found substantial data that reported the impact of father absence for boys in general and specifically, African American boys, but very little with regard to girls and almost nothing for African American girls.
Wright King, married and the mother of two sons Roderick and Ryan, has experienced parenthood first hand and learned the true meaning of unconditional love and the critical role that both parents play in raising a child.
Papa Was a Rolling Stone: A Daughter’s Journey to Forgiveness (2007), details her life and very personal experience with father absence. It speaks to the crisis that threatens to change the fabric of the traditional family structure, particularly for African Americans and the need for young men and women to be more discerning in their behaviors and choices to mitigate the impact of father absence.
Wright King is married to Rev. Dr. Oscar King, III and is involved in her church where she developed a series of financial education seminars designed to empower adults and youth. She is working to launch a program called “Fathers First” to promote the involvement of fathers in the lives of their children.
