Why Absent Fathers Harm Children and Ruin Society

Academy of Ideas

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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“Fatherlessness is the leading cause of declining child well-being in our society. It is also the engine driving our most urgent social problems…Yet, despite its scale and social consequences, fatherlessness is a problem that is frequently ignored or denied.” David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America Families are microcosms of society. Strong and stable families contribute to social […]

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0:24.5	Fatherlessness is the leading cause of declining child well-being in our society.
0:29.6	It is also the engine driving our most urgent social problems.
0:33.9	Yet, despite its scale and social consequences, fatherlessness is a problem that is frequently
0:39.3	ignored or denied.
0:42.3	Families are microcosms of society.
0:45.3	Strong and stable families contribute to social flourishing, while dysfunctional families
0:50.3	push society in the direction of breakdown.
0:53.3	More than at any point in history, the family unit is broken, as a significant number of children
0:59.5	are growing up without a father.
1:02.1	In this video, drawing from the research of the American sociologist David Popinot,
1:07.2	we explore how absent fathers are harming children and destroying society, and how this problem can be solved.
1:15.3	Based on the evidence, a strong case can be made that paternal deprivation, in the form of the physical, economic, and emotional unavailability of fathers to their children,
1:26.3	has become the most prevalent form of child
1:28.6	maltreatment today, writes David Popinot.
1:32.3	Fathers are vanishing from family life, and only mothers are left to care about their children,
1:37.5	and mothers are not enough.
1:41.0	Approximately 40% of children are born to unmarried mothers.
1:45.0	Over 50% of marriages end in divorce, with the mother, more often than not, being granted custody
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