It has always been my contention that a — if not “the” — major problem in our country today is children being raised without fathers.

Boys need role models and if there’s not a strong father in the family, they will look to alternatives which are usually not good.

Young girls need the acceptance and love of their fathers and if that’s absent, they’ll look for it elsewhere and it will not be pretty.

This article demonstrates that a good percentage of the problems in our country are caused by children raised without fathers, especially sons without dads. He uses Mass shootings as an example.

“Warren Farrell, author of the book “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It,” has found that being “dad deprived” is a leading factor in males’ increased mental illness, addiction, and suicide.

“He links the mass shootings in 53 developed countries to boys and men who lacked a father figure, and he specifically mentioned six mass shootings that have occurred in the United States in the 21st century.

“All six of those mass school shootings that have killed more than 10 people have been done by boys, and all six of them have been done by boys who have been ‘dad deprived,’ from Sandy Hook right on through to the Texas shooting,” Farrell said during a recent interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program.

Farrell was referring to the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas….

As of 2020, 21 percent of children, or about 15.3 million, lived with their mother only, compared to 11 percent, or 7.6 million, in 1968…

For the whole story, click HERE.

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