This is re-post from June 2014. If anything, it’s even more relevant today…

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Were you were fortunate to have a father who cared enough to stick around to raise you? Consider yourself blessed. Dads are vital to a child’s healthy emotional and psychological development. Sadly, as this article from Lee Culpepper at the American Thinker points out, it’s the country’s dearth of fathers that’s largely responsible for a myriad of social ills ~

Statistics about fatherless children reveal plenty concerning the chaos the news media pretend not to notice almost every time stories involving bona fide juvenile delinquents appear. Of the youths in prison, 85 percent are from fatherless homes. Children without fathers account for 63 percent of youth suicides, 70 percent of teenage pregnancies, 80 percent of rapists with displaced anger, 85 percent of children with behavioral problems, and 71 percent of high school dropouts.
 
Liberals, with their undaunted ability to ignore these ugly realities, blame society and phantom privileges for the deplorable statistics that coincide irrefutably with the rise of their counterproductive dogmas. Welfare, anti-Christianity, no-fault divorce, government-school monopoly, and Dr. Spock discipline have done nothing but eliminate personal responsibility and accountability from our society.
 
It is almost common knowledge that 72 percent of black children now grow up in homes without a father. Furthermore, despite the incredibly low graduation standards public schools have today, nearly 50 percent of black males drop out of school. Of course, black children are not alone in the disaster liberals have created by replacing a father’s hard-earned income, unconditional love, and stern discipline with government handouts, bleeding-heart psychobabble, and a child’s deep self-reflection.

 
Instead of encouraging two moms for Billy, instead of making dads the butt of every other sit-com joke, instead of ignoring reality… we need to recognize the critical role that fathers play in a healthy family – and a healthy society – and #BringBackOurFathers

 
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Related:
Celebrate Father’s Day, Not Parent Day