Here’s a rather predictable news flash: American mothers want the fathers of their children to stick around, help with the kids and go to church.
There’s something else that united the participants in “Mama Says,” a recent survey from the National Fatherhood Initiative: 93 percent of them believe America is suffering from what the researchers called a “father-absence crisis.” An earlier survey by the same nonpartisan group found that 91 percent of American fathers affirmed that stark judgment.
The survey didn’t include many religious questions, but the role of faith in American homes and marriages kept rising to the surface.
“What the religious questions revealed to us is that the mothers who were the most religious were consistently the mothers who were the most satisfied with the jobs that their men were doing as fathers,” said Vincent DiCaro of the National Fatherhood Initiative, which is based in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.
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Terry Mattingly on some Findings of the National Fatherhood Initiative
Here’s a rather predictable news flash: American mothers want the fathers of their children to stick around, help with the kids and go to church.
There’s something else that united the participants in “Mama Says,” a recent survey from the National Fatherhood Initiative: 93 percent of them believe America is suffering from what the researchers called a “father-absence crisis.” An earlier survey by the same nonpartisan group found that 91 percent of American fathers affirmed that stark judgment.
The survey didn’t include many religious questions, but the role of faith in American homes and marriages kept rising to the surface.
“What the religious questions revealed to us is that the mothers who were the most religious were consistently the mothers who were the most satisfied with the jobs that their men were doing as fathers,” said Vincent DiCaro of the National Fatherhood Initiative, which is based in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.
Read it all.