Contributed by Joshua Parrish on Jun 19, 2008
* 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
* 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
* 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
* 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless
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Contributed by Joshua Parrish on Jun 19, 2008
"Children who live absent their biological fathers are, on average, at least two to three times more likely to be poor, to use drugs, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, to be victims of child abuse, and to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live with
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DISCOURAGING IRRESPONSIBILITY
So what should we do about people who won’t take responsibility for their own actions? I believe the answer is simple:
Set them free.
Give them the freedom to make their own decisions, to face the consequences of their own acts, to see for themselves what their
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 25, 2008
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Kids are say some of the greatest things. One child complained to his grandpa, "I don't get it. Every time mom says that she can't take anymore and is worn
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
Last Sunday as we were driving to church Our teenage son leaned over from the back seat gave his mother a kiss on the cheek and said, “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
My wife objected, “But it’s not Mother’s Day today – that’s
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 29, 2008
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A child's father kept bringing home office work just about every night. Finally his first-grader son asked why. Daddy explained that he had so much work, he couldn't finish it all during the day. The boy
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Contributed by Bill Purvis on Oct 20, 2008
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Churchhill’s Father
Winston Churchhill’s father was jealous of Winston. He couldn’t speak a kind word of him. Curchhill, the greatest leader of the day, in the book, "The Last Lion" says, "I would rather had been an apprentice for a brick layer, or run errands as a messenger boy, or dressed the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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In one of Dr. James Dobson’s 2008 newsletters, he writes:
"Some years ago, executives of a greeting-card company decided to do something special for Mother’s Day. They set up a table in a federal prison, inviting inmates to send a free card to their Mom. The lines were so long they had to make
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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GOOD FATHER, GOOD WORKER
I had a conversation with a man named Bill Houghton, who was president of a large construction firm. Through the years, he had hired and managed thousands of employees, so I asked him, "When you hire an employee, what do you look for?"
He said, "I look primarily at the
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 23, 2009
A FATHER'S DUTY NEVER ENDS
I went to a Saturday matinee showing of that great Sidney Poitier movie, "Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?" and I reveled in that confrontation between Poitier’s world-renowned doctor character and his inner-city postman father. The postman father plays the "I sacrificed
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MOM IS AMAZING
When I was small, I always thought my mother was omniscient because she knew where everything was. I’d say, "Mom, where are my mitts?" And she’d say, "They’re under the bed" just like that. When I looked, there they were.
As I grew older, I realized she wasn't omniscient; she just
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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DEAD FATHERS BETTER THAN ABSENT FATHERS
According to the New Jersey Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, in 1960 the total number of births to teenagers was 11,636. In 2000, the number of births to teenagers was 8,219. At first glance, we would say we are doing something right, yet a little more
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