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The importance of Fathers

Daughters of single parents without a Father involved are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 711% more likely to have children as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a pre-marital birth and 92% more likely to get divorced themselves.

Adolescent girls raised in a 2 parent home with involved Fathers are significantly less likely to be sexually active than girls raised without involved Fathers.

43% of US children live without their father [US Department of Census]

90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.

[US D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census]

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes.

[Criminal Justice & Behaviour, Vol 14, pp.

403-26, 1978]

71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father.

[U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services press release, Friday, March 26, 1999]

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.

[US D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census]

85% of children who exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.

[Center for Disease Control]

90% of adolescent repeat arsonists live with only their mother.

[Wray Herbert, “Dousing the Kindlers,” Psychology Today, January, 1985, p. 28]

71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.

[National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools]

75% of adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes.

[Rainbows f for all God’s Children]

70% of juveniles in state operated institutions have no father.

[US Department of Justice, Special Report, Sept. 1988]

85% of youths in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.

[Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Department of Corrections, 1992]

Fatherless boys and girls are: twice as likely to drop out of high school; twice as likely to end up in jail; four times more likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems.

[US D.H.H.S. news release, March 26, 1999]

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The Don’ts

Don’t neglect the Word of God.

Don’t go looking for useless arguments.

Don’t abuse your faith for personal gain.

Don’t be a lover of Money.

The Do’s

Flee the Don’ts

Pursue Godly Character

righteousness:

b. godliness

c. faith

d. love

e. steadfastness

f. gentleness

3. Fight the good Fight of the Faith

4. Obey Jesus until he returns

5. Worship Jesus always

The Father every child needs: