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The Value of Fathers.

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  Despite the push the feminize and demonize masculine men, men and women women are just flat out different.  Society has been fixated on women for a long time but maybe it's time to reevaluate the importance of men.  Children who grow up with involved fathers are: 39% more likely to earn mostly A’s in school, 45% less likely to repeat a grade, 60% less likely to be suspended or expelled from school, twice as likely to go to college and find stable employment after high school, 75% less likely to have a teen birth, and 80% less likely to spend time in jail. If a father does not go to church, no matter how faithful his wife’s devotions, only 2% will become a regular worshipper. If a father does go regularly, regardless of the practice of the mother, between 66%-99% will become churchgoers. If a father goes just irregularly, 2/3 of the children will attend church regularly.  Focus on the Family article Dads, for instance, love their children “more dangerously.” That’s because they pl

How important are Fathers?

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Exactly how important are fathers?   Ask teachers or coaches and they will be able to generalize some key differences with students and athletes from fatherless homes. Fathers that are involved and positive role models play a huge part in the behavior and motivation as well as motivations of a child. The Father's effect on Spirituality or Lack thereof Vitz is a psychologist who was an atheist himself until his late thirties. He began to wonder if psychology played a role in one’s belief in God. After all, secular psychologists have been saying that a belief in God is really nothing more than infantile wish fulfillment. Dr. Vitz wondered if the shoe was on the other foot. Could it be that atheists are engaged in unconscious wish fulfillment? After studying the lives of more than a dozen of the world’s most influential atheists, Dr. Vitz discovered that they all had one thing in common: defective relationships with their fathers. The relationship was defective because the father was