Opinion | Children need their dads to survive in modern jungle WashTimesOpEd
Of the young men in prison, 90% grew up without fathers. It’s been estimated that a 1% increase in single-parent households in a neighborhood results in a 3% increase in adolescent violence.
For the middle class, no-fault divorce has led to the rise of female-dominated households. Ironically, feminists told us that easy access to divorce would improve the condition of women. Sure, if poverty is an improvement. Yet everywhere, the message is the same: Fathers are largely irrelevant. Single or married mothers are celebrated, and rightly so. Fathers are ignored or ridiculed. In commercials, women are savvy, while men are well-meaning schnooks.
Earlier this year, Pope Francis remarked: “Fathers are not born but made. A man does not become a father simply by bringing a child into the world, but by taking the responsibility to care for that child.”A mother doesn’t have to be coaxed into caring. She carried the child in her body, experienced the pain of childbirth, and probably nursed the infant too.They’re good for more than financial support, though the poverty rate is three times as high among fatherless families.
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