Growing up as a young child, I had a half-brother who was nine years older than I was. My mother had him at the age of nineteen. Children are growing up without the care and affection of a father, and this is bad because it negatively affects the child, it raises the chances of girls becoming single mothers and boys are more likely to go to prison. The church needs to act on their responsibility as Christians and help the fatherless. In this paper, I am going to talk about how fatherlessness negatively affects boys and girls differently, then I will… Is this problem being addressed? Why does it matter?
This issue of fatherlessness isn’t getting better, in fact, the percentage of father-absent children to father-present children has been increasing …show more content…
Many children are left by their father before they are born. The child will grow up wondering why their dad left, and have doubts about himself. Maybe it was because he didn’t love them, he didn’t care about them. Maybe it was because he hates them. Children who were left before the age of five struggle with self-image, their education levels are lower and drop out levels higher, they are five times more likely to commit suicide and have increased rates of divorce and relationship problems. These are just a few of the many side-effects of growing up without a father. Boys who grew up in a father-absent home are shown to have had a higher negative impact than girls on their life because of it. Statistics show how boys who grew up without a dad were directly affecting college enrollment in the future. Robert Franklin, a member of the National Board of Directors for the National Parents Organization, confirms this in his article ‘New Study: Fatherlessness Affects Boys in …show more content…
Nonetheless, we should understand where the nation is headed as the numbers continue their upward spiral. I am convinced that, although the problem is global, the solution is local: individual men consistently caring for individual children. Whether the forces motivating the growth of imprisonment and fatherlessness or those supporting the responsible contact between men and their children will win the race is a mystery to me, but each one of us, through our compassionate awareness, must do our small part.”
Organizations like Big Brother, Big sister organizations are playing a part in fixing this problem. And there are other organizations meant to reach out to these fatherless children. But what about the church? The bible says in Job 29:12 that “because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.” The fatherless children in our culture have no voice and there are few that help them. The bible calls us to help the fatherless and the widowed. In John 14:15 it says “If you love me you will keep my commandments”. This is one of God’s commands, we as Christians need to follow God’s instruction. In Tim Beilharz’s article ‘Being fathers to the fatherless’ he states it
This issue of fatherlessness isn’t getting better, in fact, the percentage of father-absent children to father-present children has been increasing …show more content…
Many children are left by their father before they are born. The child will grow up wondering why their dad left, and have doubts about himself. Maybe it was because he didn’t love them, he didn’t care about them. Maybe it was because he hates them. Children who were left before the age of five struggle with self-image, their education levels are lower and drop out levels higher, they are five times more likely to commit suicide and have increased rates of divorce and relationship problems. These are just a few of the many side-effects of growing up without a father. Boys who grew up in a father-absent home are shown to have had a higher negative impact than girls on their life because of it. Statistics show how boys who grew up without a dad were directly affecting college enrollment in the future. Robert Franklin, a member of the National Board of Directors for the National Parents Organization, confirms this in his article ‘New Study: Fatherlessness Affects Boys in …show more content…
Nonetheless, we should understand where the nation is headed as the numbers continue their upward spiral. I am convinced that, although the problem is global, the solution is local: individual men consistently caring for individual children. Whether the forces motivating the growth of imprisonment and fatherlessness or those supporting the responsible contact between men and their children will win the race is a mystery to me, but each one of us, through our compassionate awareness, must do our small part.”
Organizations like Big Brother, Big sister organizations are playing a part in fixing this problem. And there are other organizations meant to reach out to these fatherless children. But what about the church? The bible says in Job 29:12 that “because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.” The fatherless children in our culture have no voice and there are few that help them. The bible calls us to help the fatherless and the widowed. In John 14:15 it says “If you love me you will keep my commandments”. This is one of God’s commands, we as Christians need to follow God’s instruction. In Tim Beilharz’s article ‘Being fathers to the fatherless’ he states it