We Can’t Protect Kids Without Fathers - TERRY SCHILLING

However, it is impossible to understand the increasing threat to children without also recognizing the widespread assault on the American family that has taken place in recent decades.

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There should be no doubt that there is a crisis. By any measure, America’s children today are struggling. 

• Academically, students have never been in worse shape — according to the National Assessment for Educational Progress, in 2022 only 36% of fourth-graders were proficient in math and only 33% could read at grade level.
• Our kids are also suffering from a severe mental health crisis. The number of children on anti-depressants grew by over 40% from 2015 to 2021, and youth suicides increased by 62% from 2007 to 2021.

...the most important, and perhaps least acknowledged, cause has been the disappearance of fathers from the lives of their kids.
There’s no getting around it: dads have not been as involved in protecting their children as they should have been. 

• And this has resulted in a disaster for everyone...