from fatherless homes.
· 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
· 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from

fatherless homes.
· 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from

fatherless homes.
· 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

home.
· California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate

and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
· Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national

increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and

gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
· 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents.
· Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have

children during their teenage years than are daughters from

intact families.
· Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as

teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and
· 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
· In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
· 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
· The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
· Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-

family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system.

PRIORITY ONE: FATHERHOOD

Reestablishing fatherhood, in my opinion, must become a PRIMARY issue among Christians. If we can agree that the Spiritual reflects the Natural realm, we can easily discern the lack of “fathering” in The Church by its poor counterpart in the secular world. In other words, while many men are making babies they fail to raise, likewise, with The Church, we are kept too busy to trai

In the Hebrew culture, a father was to be diligent in instructing his children in the ways of the Lord. In our own culture, how are we doing in comparison? It is of primary importance for the sake of our society, that our kids be raised in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord," (Eph 6:4). Based upon Scripture, this responsibility rests upon dear ol’ dad.

Proverbs, 22:6-11 reads, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old (as he grows older), he will not depart from it." To train, indicates the first instruction that a father and mother gives to a child; i.e., his early education. The training is designed to open before the child the manner of life for which he is intended. To initiate a child's early learning in this way is of great importance, like a tree that can be “trained” to grow the direction that it is bent from its earliest years. Ephesians 6:4 provides a word of instruction to fathers, stated in a negative and positive way. "And you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Here is what the Bible says about a father's responsibility in child- rearing: The negative aspect of the verse reveals that a father is not to foster the bad passions of their children by severity, injustice, partiality, or unreasonable exercise of authority. Negative conduct towards a child will only serve to nurture evil within their hearts.

The positive aspect comes from a father’s dedication to educate them, train them, develop their conduct in all of life by the instruction and admonition of the Lord. This is the training (being a definite role model as a father) or education of a child—the whole process of educating and discipline. The word "admonition" carries with it the idea of "putting the child in mind of," which is the act of reminding the child of faults (constructively) or duties (responsibilities according to their level of age and understanding.)

Children are not to be allowed to grow up without care or control. Proverbs 29:15 warns us, “The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.” They are to be instructed, disciplined, and admonished, so that they are brought to knowledge, self-control, and obedience. This whole process of education is to be from a Christ-centered perspective. Any other means of educating may result in disastrous failure. Even the if a child resists his Christian upbringing, we are encouraged (Proverbs 22:6) that if we “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Many are the examples of people raised in a Christian manner who, when they grew into adulthood, recognized the error of their ways, repented, and pursued a godly path. Where Christian discipline is concerned, bear this in mind: Martin Luther said, "Keep an apple beside the rod to give the child when he does well." Food for thought.

We must never forget that the moral and spiritual element of a child’s nature is just as essential as their intellectual, athletic or social skills. Spirituality, therefore is as necessary to the development of the individual as anything. Even moreso. Proverbs, again, reminds us, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom." FATHERS CRITICAL INFLUENCE

The Christian father is really the instrument in God's hand. The only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord and the role of a father has been God-ordained as the means to this end. The whole process of instruction and discipline must be that which comes from God so that His authority should be brought into constant and immediate contact with the mind, heart, and conscience of our children. That’s not happening. But it must begin! The human father should set himself as the ultimate authority to determine truth and duty in the home; as the Servant-Leader of his home, he must point the way to his OWN King, Jesus. Too often, a man “throws his weight around” and rules in a dictatorial manner, instilling fear into his children rather than respect. This simply develops the human aspect of "self." It is only by making Jesus the ruler, on whose authority everything is to be believed and in obedience to whose will every thing is to be done, that positive results can possibly be attained.

The Scriptures instruction to fathers is always God's ideal. We tend to bring those ideals down to our human level and experience. Upon reflection, I recognize how often I have failed in my pursuit of the biblical ideal. That does not falsify the Scripture and God's truth and His wisdom. I cannot say "the Scripture just doesn't work." I WILL say, if we shoot for the moon, the worst we will do is to land among the stars.

So, aim high, dad.
"All Scripture is given of God, and is profitable for teaching, reproving, correcting, and instruction in righteousness; that the man (or woman) of God may be completely equipped for all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). Therefore, if you were not blessed with a godly fatherly example, learn about your fathering role from the One who authored the concept, God Himself.

Learn what the Bible says about being a father. The means and methods we use to teach God's truth will vary, but those truths should always be applicable to any lifetime child’s vocation, choices and lifestyle. As you are faithful in role modeling, what your children learns about God will place them in good stead for all of their lives. They must learn from your example how to love the Lord their God with all their mind and heart and strength and desire to serve Him in everything they do.

FACTS ABOUT FATHERLESSNESS

Despite all of her proud accomplishments, America leads the world in fatherlessness. Its impact on our culture impacts each one of us. According to a recent study by Josh McDowell, there are over 25 million fatherless kids in America. Most were abandoned while they were infants.

Other statistics are just as frightening:
· 36.3% of all children in America live absent their biological father according to the National Center for Fathering.
· The Center for Successful Fathering found that only 27% of all kids in America live with both their biological mother and father.
· 71% of high school drop-outs come from a home without a father according to the National Principles Association.
· 85% of kids locked up in youth prisons come from fatherless homes according to the Texas Department of Corrections.
· One major study sponsored by the National Fathering Initiative found that 60% of America's rapists, 72% of adolescent murderers, and 70% of long- term prison inmates are all people who grew up without the guidance and direction of a loving father.

The good news is that providing these kids with a committed Christian role model works. Study after study points out the positive life long impact that a committed adult can have on a child's life. One study by Columbia University found that children with one committed role model are 90% more likely to graduate from high school compared to children who have no such role model.

Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their natural parents are married to each other, children living in female- headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are deprived of their natural fathers are:

1. Eight times more likely to go to prison.
2. Five times more likely to commit suicide.
3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists.
5. 32 times more likely to run away.
6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused.
9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused.
10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.
11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate.
12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living.
Source: "The Garbage Generation" by Daniel Amneus Ph.D. It is posted in HTML format at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/damneus/garbgen.htm

IT’S OFFICIAL: THE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED

"For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behaviour, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children."

Source: Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family
By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS
Fathers' absence has resulted in some dismal statistics that have only served to weaken us as a nation. It’s a problem that government cannot solve; a problem that we cannot throw money at and expect it to go away. Ours is a Government-led society, where women are deceived into believing that a man is unnecessary because the state will take care of them. Our boys are programmed to believe that women are sex- starved and are fed a steady diet of the female form to fuel the fires of their sex drives. Our daughters are educated by their pop-star idols that this is how a young lady dresses while slick magazines tell them everything they think they need to know about what pleases a man. The media, in general, is killing families, stealing the initiative of our computer-programmed kids and destroying our culture in the process.

READ 'EM AND WEEP
· 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from

fatherless homes.
· 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless

homes.
· 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
· 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come

from fatherless homes.
· 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
· 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from

fatherless homes.
· 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from

fatherless homes.
· 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

home.
· California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate

and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
· Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national

increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and

gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
· 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents.
· Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have

children during their teenage years than are daughters from

intact families.
· Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as

teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and
· 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
· In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
· 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
· The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
· Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-

family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system.

PRIORITY ONE: FATHERHOOD

Reestablishing fatherhood, in my opinion, must become a PRIMARY issue among Christians. If we can agree that the Spiritual reflects the Natural realm, we can easily discern the lack of “fathering” in The Church by its poor counterpart in the secular world. In other words, while many men are making babies they fail to raise, likewise, with The Church, we are kept too busy to trai

Children are not to be allowed to grow up without care or control. Proverbs 29:15 warns us, “The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.” They are to be instructed, disciplined, and admonished, so that they are brought to knowledge, self-control, and obedience. This whole process of education is to be from a Christ-centered perspective. Any other means of educating may result in disastrous failure. Even the if a child resists his Christian upbringing, we are encouraged (Proverbs 22:6) that if we “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Many are the examples of people raised in a Christian manner who, when they grew into adulthood, recognized the error of their ways, repented, and pursued a godly path. Where Christian discipline is concerned, bear this in mind: Martin Luther said, "Keep an apple beside the rod to give the child when he does well." Food for thought.

We must never forget that the moral and spiritual element of a child’s nature is just as essential as their intellectual, athletic or social skills. Spirituality, therefore is as necessary to the development of the individual as anything. Even moreso. Proverbs, again, reminds us, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom." FATHERS CRITICAL INFLUENCE

The Christian father is really the instrument in God's hand. The only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord and the role of a father has been God-ordained as the means to this end. The whole process of instruction and discipline must be that which comes from God so that His authority should be brought into constant and immediate contact with the mind, heart, and conscience of our children. That’s not happening. But it must begin! The human father should set himself as the ultimate authority to determine truth and duty in the home; as the Servant-Leader of his home, he must point the way to his OWN King, Jesus. Too often, a man “throws his weight around” and rules in a dictatorial manner, instilling fear into his children rather than respect. This simply develops the human aspect of "self." It is only by making Jesus the ruler, on whose authority everything is to be believed and in obedience to whose will every thing is to be done, that positive results can possibly be attained.

The Scriptures instruction to fathers is always God's ideal. We tend to bring those ideals down to our human level and experience. Upon reflection, I recognize how often I have failed in my pursuit of the biblical ideal. That does not falsify the Scripture and God's truth and His wisdom. I cannot say "the Scripture just doesn't work." I WILL say, if we shoot for the moon, the worst we will do is to land among the stars.

So, aim high, dad.
"All Scripture is given of God, and is profitable for teaching, reproving, correcting, and instruction in righteousness; that the man (or woman) of God may be completely equipped for all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). Therefore, if you were not blessed with a godly fatherly example, learn about your fathering role from the One who authored the concept, God Himself.

Learn what the Bible says about being a father. The means and methods we use to teach God's truth will vary, but those truths should always be applicable to any lifetime child’s vocation, choices and lifestyle. As you are faithful in role modeling, what your children learns about God will place them in good stead for all of their lives. They must learn from your example how to love the Lord their God with all their mind and heart and strength and desire to serve Him in everything they do.

FACTS ABOUT FATHERLESSNESS

Despite all of her proud accomplishments, America leads the world in fatherlessness. Its impact on our culture impacts each one of us. According to a recent study by Josh McDowell, there are over 25 million fatherless kids in America. Most were abandoned while they were infants.

Other statistics are just as frightening:
· 36.3% of all children in America live absent their biological father according to the National Center for Fathering.
· The Center for Successful Fathering found that only 27% of all kids in America live with both their biological mother and father.
· 71% of high school drop-outs come from a home without a father according to the National Principles Association.
· 85% of kids locked up in youth prisons come from fatherless homes according to the Texas Department of Corrections.
· One major study sponsored by the National Fathering Initiative found that 60% of America's rapists, 72% of adolescent murderers, and 70% of long- term prison inmates are all people who grew up without the guidance and direction of a loving father.

The good news is that providing these kids with a committed Christian role model works. Study after study points out the positive life long impact that a committed adult can have on a child's life. One study by Columbia University found that children with one committed role model are 90% more likely to graduate from high school compared to children who have no such role model.

Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their natural parents are married to each other, children living in female- headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are deprived of their natural fathers are:

1. Eight times more likely to go to prison.
2. Five times more likely to commit suicide.
3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists.
5. 32 times more likely to run away.
6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused.
9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused.
10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.
11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate.
12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living.
Source: "The Garbage Generation" by Daniel Amneus Ph.D. It is posted in HTML format at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/damneus/garbgen.htm

IT’S OFFICIAL: THE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED

"For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behaviour, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children."

Source: Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family
By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS
Fathers' absence has resulted in some dismal statistics that have only served to weaken us as a nation. It’s a problem that government cannot solve; a problem that we cannot throw money at and expect it to go away. Ours is a Government-led society, where women are deceived into believing that a man is unnecessary because the state will take care of them. Our boys are programmed to believe that women are sex- starved and are fed a steady diet of the female form to fuel the fires of their sex drives. Our daughters are educated by their pop-star idols that this is how a young lady dresses while slick magazines tell them everything they think they need to know about what pleases a man. The media, in general, is killing families, stealing the initiative of our computer-programmed kids and destroying our culture in the process.

READ 'EM AND WEEP
· 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from

fatherless homes.
· 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless

homes.
· 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
· 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come

from fatherless homes.
· 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
· 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from

fatherless homes.
· 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from

fatherless homes.
· 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

home.
· California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate

and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
· Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national

increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and

gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
· 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents.
· Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have

children during their teenage years than are daughters from

intact families.
· Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as

teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and
· 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
· In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
· 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
· The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
· Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-

family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system.

PRIORITY ONE: FATHERHOOD

Reestablishing fatherhood, in my opinion, must become a PRIMARY issue among Christians. If we can agree that the Spiritual reflects the Natural realm, we can easily discern the lack of “fathering” in The Church by its poor counterpart in the secular world. In other words, while many men are making babies they fail to raise, likewise, with The Church, we are kept too busy to trai

So, aim high, dad.
"All Scripture is given of God, and is profitable for teaching, reproving, correcting, and instruction in righteousness; that the man (or woman) of God may be completely equipped for all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). Therefore, if you were not blessed with a godly fatherly example, learn about your fathering role from the One who authored the concept, God Himself.

Learn what the Bible says about being a father. The means and methods we use to teach God's truth will vary, but those truths should always be applicable to any lifetime child’s vocation, choices and lifestyle. As you are faithful in role modeling, what your children learns about God will place them in good stead for all of their lives. They must learn from your example how to love the Lord their God with all their mind and heart and strength and desire to serve Him in everything they do.

FACTS ABOUT FATHERLESSNESS

Despite all of her proud accomplishments, America leads the world in fatherlessness. Its impact on our culture impacts each one of us. According to a recent study by Josh McDowell, there are over 25 million fatherless kids in America. Most were abandoned while they were infants.

Other statistics are just as frightening:
· 36.3% of all children in America live absent their biological father according to the National Center for Fathering.
· The Center for Successful Fathering found that only 27% of all kids in America live with both their biological mother and father.
· 71% of high school drop-outs come from a home without a father according to the National Principles Association.
· 85% of kids locked up in youth prisons come from fatherless homes according to the Texas Department of Corrections.
· One major study sponsored by the National Fathering Initiative found that 60% of America's rapists, 72% of adolescent murderers, and 70% of long- term prison inmates are all people who grew up without the guidance and direction of a loving father.

The good news is that providing these kids with a committed Christian role model works. Study after study points out the positive life long impact that a committed adult can have on a child's life. One study by Columbia University found that children with one committed role model are 90% more likely to graduate from high school compared to children who have no such role model.

Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their natural parents are married to each other, children living in female- headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are deprived of their natural fathers are:

1. Eight times more likely to go to prison.
2. Five times more likely to commit suicide.
3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists.
5. 32 times more likely to run away.
6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused.
9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused.
10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.
11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate.
12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living.
Source: "The Garbage Generation" by Daniel Amneus Ph.D. It is posted in HTML format at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/damneus/garbgen.htm

IT’S OFFICIAL: THE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED

"For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behaviour, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children."

Source: Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family
By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS
Fathers' absence has resulted in some dismal statistics that have only served to weaken us as a nation. It’s a problem that government cannot solve; a problem that we cannot throw money at and expect it to go away. Ours is a Government-led society, where women are deceived into believing that a man is unnecessary because the state will take care of them. Our boys are programmed to believe that women are sex- starved and are fed a steady diet of the female form to fuel the fires of their sex drives. Our daughters are educated by their pop-star idols that this is how a young lady dresses while slick magazines tell them everything they think they need to know about what pleases a man. The media, in general, is killing families, stealing the initiative of our computer-programmed kids and destroying our culture in the process.

READ 'EM AND WEEP
· 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from

fatherless homes.
· 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless

homes.
· 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
· 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come

from fatherless homes.
· 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
· 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from

fatherless homes.
· 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from

fatherless homes.
· 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

home.
· California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate

and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
· Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national

increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and

gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
· 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents.
· Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have

children during their teenage years than are daughters from

intact families.
· Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as

teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and
· 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
· In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
· 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
· The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
· Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-

family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system.

PRIORITY ONE: FATHERHOOD

Reestablishing fatherhood, in my opinion, must become a PRIMARY issue among Christians. If we can agree that the Spiritual reflects the Natural realm, we can easily discern the lack of “fathering” in The Church by its poor counterpart in the secular world. In other words, while many men are making babies they fail to raise, likewise, with The Church, we are kept too busy to trai

Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their natural parents are married to each other, children living in female- headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are deprived of their natural fathers are:

1. Eight times more likely to go to prison.
2. Five times more likely to commit suicide.
3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists.
5. 32 times more likely to run away.
6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused.
9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused.
10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.
11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate.
12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living.
Source: "The Garbage Generation" by Daniel Amneus Ph.D. It is posted in HTML format at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/damneus/garbgen.htm

IT’S OFFICIAL: THE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED

"For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behaviour, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children."

Source: Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family
By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS
Fathers' absence has resulted in some dismal statistics that have only served to weaken us as a nation. It’s a problem that government cannot solve; a problem that we cannot throw money at and expect it to go away. Ours is a Government-led society, where women are deceived into believing that a man is unnecessary because the state will take care of them. Our boys are programmed to believe that women are sex- starved and are fed a steady diet of the female form to fuel the fires of their sex drives. Our daughters are educated by their pop-star idols that this is how a young lady dresses while slick magazines tell them everything they think they need to know about what pleases a man. The media, in general, is killing families, stealing the initiative of our computer-programmed kids and destroying our culture in the process.

READ 'EM AND WEEP
· 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from

fatherless homes.
· 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless

homes.
· 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
· 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come

from fatherless homes.
· 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
· 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from

fatherless homes.
· 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from

fatherless homes.
· 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

home.
· California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate

and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
· Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national

increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and

gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
· 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents.
· Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have

children during their teenage years than are daughters from

intact families.
· Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as

teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and
· 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
· In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
· 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
· The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
· Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-

family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system.

PRIORITY ONE: FATHERHOOD

Reestablishing fatherhood, in my opinion, must become a PRIMARY issue among Christians. If we can agree that the Spiritual reflects the Natural realm, we can easily discern the lack of “fathering” in The Church by its poor counterpart in the secular world. In other words, while many men are making babies they fail to raise, likewise, with The Church, we are kept too busy to trai

from fatherless homes.
· 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
· 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from

fatherless homes.
· 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from

fatherless homes.
· 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

home.
· California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate

and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
· Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national

increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and

gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
· 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents.
· Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have

children during their teenage years than are daughters from

intact families.
· Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as

teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and
· 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
· In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
· 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
· The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
· Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-

family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system.

PRIORITY ONE: FATHERHOOD

Reestablishing fatherhood, in my opinion, must become a PRIMARY issue among Christians. If we can agree that the Spiritual reflects the Natural realm, we can easily discern the lack of “fathering” in The Church by its poor counterpart in the secular world. In other words, while many men are making babies they fail to raise, likewise, with The Church, we are kept too busy to train new converts and see them delivered and set free from oppression.

Radical as it may sound, Christ-centered fatherhood is the only way to rid this world of its current social pathology, regardless of the "political incorrectness" of such a notion. There is too much at stake to ignore this truth.

Happy Fathers Day, men! Let’s purpose to make THIS Father’s Day the day that we repented and made the Cause of Christ the motivation behind ALL our fathering efforts.

Ok…I’ll go first.

Every blessing,
Michael Tummillo
A servant of God
www.YourTown4Jesus.com