What accounts for the dramatic growth of kids living without their biological father in the home?

What are some of the social impacts of what is called dad deprivation?

And what is the effects of dads on the mental health of children?

We'll discuss these questions and a whole lot more with a very special guest, Dr. Anthony Bradley,

a well-known scholar, multiple author, currently distinguished research fellow at the Acton Institute,

and professor of theology at Kuiper College. I'm your host, Scott Ray, and this is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Anthony, delight to have you with us,

so pleased that you could take time away from

Acton University and come be with us for this really important subject of fatherhood.

Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

So tell me this, it seems like from hearing you speak and reading your material on this subject, it seems like this is really personal to you. So tell us a little bit about why you are so passionate about the subject of

fatherhood. Great question. So the entry point for me was in two different spaces. One was

early on in seminary. I went to Covenant Seminary in St. Louis and started doing some youth ministry there in the inner city. And as the data shows, lots of students with absent

fathers, and so I just began to see the kids struggle. And I was curious as to why. And just

look at the data, and there was almost a one-to-one correspondence. If you saw a struggling

child, it was probably because they had a broken family and an absent father. The other one was

when I was teaching high school. I taught at a Christian school in Philadelphia. When I was a student

at Westminster Seminary, I taught at Philmont Christian Academy. And another

teacher and I noticed something startling. I taught ninth grade Bible, Old Testament of 14-year-olds.

God help you. Yes, which was Yom and Sass for sure. We noticed something interesting, and this was 20, 25 years ago. We noticed that

the girls were doing fine. They were walking around our campus, head up high, shoulders back.

They're in class, answering questions really engaged. And the boys were walking around like

zombies. And we were trying to figure out why is that the boys were walking around like zombies. And we were trying to figure out why is that

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