Fathers !! We need a cultural conversation about this.

“The vocation of being a father”

by Sheila Liaugminas

• One of my guests, Steve Wood, cited a mind-boggling finding of what the cost of that is. After I referred to a poll result from his website.
• According to a 1996 Gallup poll, 79.1 percent of Americans feel “the most significant family or social problem facing America is the physical absence of the father from the home.” This number is up from 69.9 percent in 1992.
• He asked if I was sitting down, because reports reveal “the estimated cost at the federal, state and local level of these absent fathers is $100 billion.”
• Wow. G.K. Chesterton called the family ‘the original department of health, education and welfare.’ It’s clearer these days how true that is.

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