An English Bishop has labelled as “perverse” the encouragement in today’s society of families without fathers.<\/p>\n
The condemnation comes from the Rt Rev James Newcome, Bishop of Penrith, who is the father of four children — two sons and two daughters, aged 24 to 17. The 55-year-old suffragan to the Bishop of Carlisle delivers the verdict in the September issue of the Carlisle diocesan news.<\/p>\n
In an opinion piece headed Are Fathers Necessary? he declares: “Fathers are there to provide consoling hugs. They are there to provide a role-model for their sons and an example of unconditional love for their daughters. “They are there to do the most important thing they can for their children which is… to love their mother. It is no accident that nature requires a man as well as a woman to provide a child. Children need a father as well as a mother. That is how it has always been.”<\/p>\n