How important are Fathers?
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...