Today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, which seems a good time to republish this post on the importance of Fatherhood (originally posted January 22nd, 2014)
Decline of Fatherhood
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One of the largest elephants in the room today (if I may further abuse an already overworked metaphor) is the decline of fatherhood. It is just one of the factors in the implosion of the traditional family, but it’s a - make that
the - key one. If you google “the importance of the father” you’ll find 98,600,000 results. That’s 98 plus
million. These are not mostly religious or conservative sources: most are related to various universities or government agencies, some are mainstream magazines not known for their cultural conservatism, such as
Parenting and
Psychology Today. Whatever their perspective they all have the same general message: growing up without a father is bad. Real bad.
In order to get a sense of the immensity of the problem . . .
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Read the entire post HERE at Nisi Dominus)
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