Kids Who Resemble Their Father/1 John 3

A study of infants living with single mothers said the children who have similar facial features to their fathers tend to be healthier after one year. A youngster who closely resembles his or her dad is more likely to spend time with him, a factor that can improve a child’s well-being.

The research, titled "If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment," was published in the Journal of Health Economics. The study looked at 715 mothers and fathers who did not live together. These single parents were interviewed just after their children's birth, then again almost a year later. The information collected included the frequency of asthma attacks and the number and length of emergency room visits, according to the study published in January.

"Fathers are important in raising a child, and it manifests itself in the health of the child," Solomon Polachek, a professor at New York’s Binghamton University and one of the authors of the study, said in a statement.

See the Father’s Love

1 John 3:1 ESV

1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

See Christ as He is

1 John 3:2 ESV

2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Practice Purification

1 John 3:3 ESV

3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Practice Righteousness

1 John 3:7 ESV

7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

Practice Love

1 John 3:16–18 ESV

16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

See God Abides in You

1 John 3:24 ESV

24 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.