Fatherhood
The first assumption is that everyone knows how to be a father, and such an simple topic as fatherhood does not need any specific or rudimentary developing. According to Erik Erikson, developmental psychologist, “Healthy and fulfilled adults all have an important characteristic In common, they work to ensure that the world will be a better place for all of our children. They make sacrifices to nurture and guide the next generation. He labeled such individuals "generative" men and women. (COGIC Scholars Advocate)
This Site seeks to focus on how to encourage and to produce more effective fathers.
The approach, "our opportunity" A lack of effective fathering" effects more than “the poor, minority families or is "a single parent/mothers” problem.
We must "turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of
the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
" (Malachi 4:6)
If not we just might be foster (allowing to grow up) a society where
parenting is a matter of just having or supporting babies, and growing
up disconnected, unfulfilled adults.
The Center for Reconciliation and Social Change is a Faith Based
Community Outreach, seeking to effect children of incarcerated
parents
Fatherhood Facts
"Over 30,000,000 children in the U.S. do not have a father living with them and over one-third will not see their father at all in the next twelve months".
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
