I recently came across the promo of a movie called Man Up and Go. It’s a movie that poses the question where are the fathers? The promo kicks off with some of the following compelling and shocking statistics:
- 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
- 85% of all children that exhibit behavioural disorders come from fatherless homes
- 80% of rapists come from fatherless homes
- 71% of all high school drop outs come from fatherless homes
- 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
- 85% of all youths sitting in jail grew up in fatherless homes
- 73% of adolescent murders come from mother only homes”
(I cannot verify where the stats are from and to what context it speaks.)
It goes further by stating that Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper, Stalin, Lee Harvey Oswald and Adolf Hitler all grew up without fathers. You can watch the promo here:
If the aforementioned statistics are true, where are the fathers? How do we even begin to communicate the father heart of God to a generation that has no concept of fatherhood? Is it even possible to do so? How does one overcome this hopeless situation? Are those growing up without a father doomed to be another statistic?
No doubt, this is a ‘man’ problem and as men it’s time to take up our responsibilities and accept the fact that they exist and take ownership of them.
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