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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt started a long time ago but went something like this: President Johnson decides to lay out his plans for the \u201cGreat Society.\u201d In it, he lays out a plan to help single mothers. He offers financial assistance to any woman that had a child in the home and no father\/male in the home. While it probably had good intentions originally, it incentivized mothers to remove the men from their home so they could continue receiving money for their child. They were getting a certain amount of money per child. So not only were mothers incentivized to raise their children without fathers, they were also incentivized to have many more children to maximize their income. This is what led to the jump in fatherless homes. In the 1940\u2019s and 1950\u2019s, approximately 8% of white children and approximately 25% of black children were born to fatherless homes. Both of these numbers tripled by 2015. 25% of white children and 75% of black children were being born to fatherless homes. This plan obviously did not work and those negative effects were irrespective of race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we\u2019re left with the statistical nightmare of fatherless homes. Here are some of those stats<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n *90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes (32 times the average).<\/p>\n\n\n\n *85% of all children who show behavior disorders are from fatherless homes (20 times the average).<\/p>\n\n\n\n *71% of all high school dropout come from fatherless homes (9 times the average).<\/p>\n\n\n\n *85% of all youth in prison come from fatherless homes (20 times the average).<\/p>\n\n\n\n *Daughters of single parents without a father involved are 711% more likely to have children as teenagers AND 92% more likely to get divorced themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *90% of adolescent repeat arsonists live only with their mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Obama stated in a speech that children from fatherless homes are 5 times more likely to grow up in poverty and commit a crime, 9 times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. Tupac Shakur recognized that he joined gangs because he searched for the things that fathers provide. He stated, \u201cI know for a fact that had I had a father, I\u2019d have some discipline and more confidence.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Studies have shown<\/a> that children living with both biological parents are 20% to 35% more physically healthy than children from broken homes. Following divorce, children are 50% more likely to develop health problems. A child raised in a married family can reduce the child\u2019s probability of living in poverty by 82%. Studies have also shown that growing up in a two-parent household is influential on reducing out of wedlock births<\/em><\/strong>. Studies show that kids who grow up in two parent homes have higher high school and college graduation rates as well as a higher likelihood of sustaining long term employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You want to fix the abortion issue for good? You want to do away with almost all school shootings? Fix those stats. Men were originally told to get out but then settled in this new life of laziness. I\u2019m looking for an all-out revival of men stepping up and being the man God designed them to be. It takes a few things to accomplish this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, it takes the man willing to admit he could be better tomorrow than he is today. That\u2019s a huge step for most men. We think we have all this figured out. Then we\u2019re forced to admit that maybe we don\u2019t. Once we can admit that, then we can work on it. The next thing that has to happen is men have to find someone they trust to point them in the right direction. Then they have to apply what they\u2019re learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next, their wife\/girlfriend has to allow them to be who God designed them to be. She is capable of stopping that by not allowing him to lead his family. If she takes care of everything and he has no real responsibilities, he will never operate in the gifts God has given him. The wife\/gf has to allow him the room to lead and make mistakes. Ouch. That\u2019s where it gets ugly. Make mistakes? I once had someone ask me, \u201cWell, what if you just know he\u2019s going to make a mistake? You just let him?\u201d My response was, \u201cUnless you are 100% certain that you know exactly what he\u2019s going to do and exactly what the repercussions are, then you don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a mistake yet or not. And even if you do, if he loves his family, then he won\u2019t make that mistake again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men have to stand up and be men. Love your spouse in front of your kids. Get them up and help get them ready for church, be the initiator. Pray over your children. Don\u2019t know how? Ask someone to help. Serve your family by listening and caring. Caring about them more than yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m fully convinced that the solution to the mass school shootings AND the heated abortion debate resides in the outbreak of men taking their roles and responsibilities seriously and choosing to do the right thing, even when it\u2019s not easy. If the decision to overturn Roe v Wade did anything, it called men to step up. And if men will step up, society needs to let them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay Classy GP (God’s People)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grainger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can\u2019t scroll two posts without seeing someone sharing their opinion on abortion. The division. The vitriol. Everyone has an opinion and they\u2019re willing to lose friendships over it. It\u2019s worth noting two distinct things: 1- I won\u2019t be covering the opinions of abortion in this and 2- the recent ruling merely returned the jurisdiction … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/roe-v-wade.jpeg\")
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