Sometimes, conventional wisdom handed down since the dawn of time is laughed off as irrelevant. C.S. Lewis and his friend Owen Barfield used the term “chronological snobbery” to mean that people who live now often think they are inherently wiser or smarter than their ancestors who lived in the past simply because time has passed.

Sadly, this has been the case in the endless redefinition and deconstruction of family. And one of the most profound problems has been that of diminishing the importance of fathers in the life of the family. This is a great tragedy, because in the role of fathers we have the delightful confluence of traditional, biblical wisdom with evidence from the social sciences. The result is an even more solid confirmation that dads matter.