BreakPoint | Captain Obvious Strikes Again -- We DO need dads!

BreakPoint | Captain Obvious Strikes Again: "Captain Obvious Strikes Again

We Do Need Dads
BreakPoint with Charles Colson
June 18, 2004

Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley.

Stop the presses. Some new research has been released, with shocking results. Here's the conclusion the researchers came to: "Dads make a difference in a child's life." As the father of six children I can't tell you how relieved this makes me feel -- especially on Father's Day.
"What's the point, you may ask, of researchers telling us what most humans throughout history have already known?
Well, some people have known it. But many people today seem to need frequent reminders about the importance of fathers. As if it weren't bad enough that decades of no-fault divorce have caused millions of kids to grow up in broken homes, the shapers of our culture are pushing for yet another marital experiment. Same-sex 'marriage' advocates assure us that children will be fine with two moms or two dads. The important thing, they say, is having two parents in the home who love each other.
"That's why this new research from the Yale School of Medicine is more important than you might think. Kathleen Fackelmann of USA Today summarizes it this way: 'Fathers bring a different parenting style to everyday activities. . . . Dads often take an active approach that encourages children to solve problems on their own rather than asking for help.'"

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