We went to a high school homecoming football game last fall. At halftime the homecoming court was presented. I was saddened to see that over half the girls were escorted by someone other than their father. Taking into account the divorce rate, it is likely that some of those fathers who were actually there were divorced and therefore partially absent.
We are raising a generation of kids who don't know what it means to have their two natural parents together in the same home. While there is often blame to be shared when parents split up, it is usually the father who is no longer in the home on a regular basis and is therefore the absent parent, either completely or partially. This absence has a profound effect on the kids as they grow up and leads to a host of problems, both for the kids and for society at large.
More to come later on this topic.
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