When you go home if you need to sit in the driveway or on the curb on the street for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever,

before you go in that house, you need to leave work at work.

When you go in there, your husband, your father.

Well, that's Benjamin Watson, and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family

with Jim Daly, talking about the important role dad that you have in the

family. I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining us.

John, according to the National Center for Fathering, over 20 million children live in a home without the physical presence of a father.

And I think our culture is reaping the whirlwind because of that.

Dad's probably had a misunderstood role in the family.

Researchers didn't understand it, but now the data is coming,

and it's not positive in fatherless homes.

I came from a single parent home.

I think with the Lord's help anything's

overcomeable but the difficulty for especially those single moms my heart

goes out to them because there is so much that a dad provides. You look at

drug addiction, runaway, completing school, high school or college. The presence of

a father tends to raise that for everybody. And today we want to talk about the

importance of dads and no dad is perfect. I certainly am not. The book I wrote was

the good dad. Let's just named for being good and there's so many things we're going to learn today with our special guest.

Yeah, Benjamin Watson has been here a number of times. He's very recognizable. He played in the NFL for 17 years.

Won a Super Bowl ring in 2004 with the Patriots and also played for the Saints and the

Browns and the Ravens before retiring in 2020. He's the founder of the Watson

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