Editor’s Word: Dads Who Care Are Dads Who Are There

When dads are not present and involved with their children, the negative consequences touch nearly every level of society. Speaking to fathers and their responsibility to disciple their children, Deuteronomy 6:7 says: “You shall teach [God’s truths] diligently to your sons and talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” That principle of Scripture cannot be obeyed if a father is absent.

We have a crisis in this country and in many parts of the world: father absence. It continues to reap devastating results. Even liberal thinkers and secularists have noted this big problem. David Blankenhorn, who has been referred to as one of America’s most liberal thinkers regarding family issues, said in 1995 that the crisis of absent fathers was “the most destructive trend of our generation.” The trend he spoke of in 1995 is worse today.

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