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Jeff Ecklund
Proverbs 17:6
'' A little boy was asked to define Father's Day. He said, ''It's just like Mother's Day, only you don't spend as much on the present.''
Proverbs 17:6 (NKJV)
6Children's children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father.
There is no doubt the importance of a father in our culture today, whether you draw that conclusion from the context of the bible, or observation of the culture that we live in...
Statistics suggest that 24 million kids' today will grow up without the influence of their biological father
And these kids are 5x more likely to live in poverty
The fatherless kids represent 85% of child behavioral problems
Much greater rate of drug abuse, educational failures, suicide and incarceration....
Our society is NOT better off in the current state of family decline...
How about the positive effects of engaged fathers?
1. Fathers and infants can be equally as attached as mothers and infants. When both parents are involved with the child, infants are attached to both parents from the beginning of life.[1]
2. Father involvement is related to positive child health outcomes in infants, such as improved weight gain in preterm infants.[2]
3. Father involvement using authoritative parenting (loving and with clear boundaries and expectations) leads to better emotional, academic, social, and behavioral outcomes for children.[3]
4. Children who feel a closeness to their father are: twice as likely as those who do not to enter college or find stable employment after high school, 75% less likely to have a teen birth, 80% less likely to spend time in jail, and half as likely to experience multiple depression symptoms.[4]
5. Fathers occupy a critical role in child development. Father absence hinders development from early infancy throughout childhood and into adulthood. The psychological harm of father absence experienced during childhood persists throughout the life cours ...
Jeff Ecklund
Proverbs 17:6
'' A little boy was asked to define Father's Day. He said, ''It's just like Mother's Day, only you don't spend as much on the present.''
Proverbs 17:6 (NKJV)
6Children's children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father.
There is no doubt the importance of a father in our culture today, whether you draw that conclusion from the context of the bible, or observation of the culture that we live in...
Statistics suggest that 24 million kids' today will grow up without the influence of their biological father
And these kids are 5x more likely to live in poverty
The fatherless kids represent 85% of child behavioral problems
Much greater rate of drug abuse, educational failures, suicide and incarceration....
Our society is NOT better off in the current state of family decline...
How about the positive effects of engaged fathers?
1. Fathers and infants can be equally as attached as mothers and infants. When both parents are involved with the child, infants are attached to both parents from the beginning of life.[1]
2. Father involvement is related to positive child health outcomes in infants, such as improved weight gain in preterm infants.[2]
3. Father involvement using authoritative parenting (loving and with clear boundaries and expectations) leads to better emotional, academic, social, and behavioral outcomes for children.[3]
4. Children who feel a closeness to their father are: twice as likely as those who do not to enter college or find stable employment after high school, 75% less likely to have a teen birth, 80% less likely to spend time in jail, and half as likely to experience multiple depression symptoms.[4]
5. Fathers occupy a critical role in child development. Father absence hinders development from early infancy throughout childhood and into adulthood. The psychological harm of father absence experienced during childhood persists throughout the life cours ...
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