Reentry that Works!
"No one raises their hand when asked if they had a dad at home"
--Larry Logsdon, Director of Individual Care Services, Marion County Adult Detention Center
It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men"—Frederick DouglassFredrick Douglass escaped slavery at the age of 16, maturing into a national leader of the abolitionist movement. Over the years, he became an international social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman, whose position on the value of intact families was wrought in the fires of forced separation.As a victim of a system that regularly took children from their parents, he knew the devastation of those with no father to guide and protect them. But in those days, the loss of a father was under the control of the slave owner. Who is in control now?In America today, 85% of incarcerated juveniles come from fatherless homes. If that one statistic doesn't start some bells ringing in our heads, what does? Fathers are not to be simply sperm donors. They are designed by God to be the backbone and foundation of the family; the holder of the the moral high ground; an exa...
To ignore the facts does not change the facts."-Andy Rooneyancy quoted some startling statistics about fatherless homes during one of our published Round Table discussions. Today 50 percent of children are born into fatherless homes across the country, and the number is 75 percent in some minority communities. She pointed out the importance of a partnership in raising children and the model of a father in the home.One of the pastors on the panel responded that this was "evangelical churchianity" and that the single mothers were better than his own had been. He told Nancy she should not have quoted those statistics.To him and to many it is politically incorrect to say that fathers are important. It is politically incorrect to point out that too many young men and women are growing up without the important example of a father who goes to work to support his wife and children, who protects and nurtures them, who enforces family standards w...
