Category: Parenting

Last year, I wrote in Addressing Your “Wounds” about how our past may keep you from living up to your full potential as a man. In this post, I dive deeper into the “Absent Father Wound”, which I believe is contributing to The Crisis of Fatherlessness I wrote about in my last post. The next post will then cover another factor that leads to becoming a better father: understanding the relationship with your mother. The Wounds Every Father Must Address In my early days of being a father, I participated in a weekly men’s study called The Quest For Authentic Manhood. The study’s creator, Dr. Robert Lewis, suggested that all men need to resolve one or more of the five significant wounds from their past to become better men. Dr. Lewis described these wounds as:  Dr. Lewis suggests that all men must unpack and resolve these possible wounds to become more

My last two posts described how Many Boys and Men are Struggling educationally, economically, and socially but that Men are Not (Solely) to Blame for leading in the “deaths of despair” from suicide, and drug or alcohol abuse. In those posts, I suggested that men who act immaturely are somewhat to blame. However, we also need similar programs and policies that help the needs and rights of females. This post is about addressing fatherlessness, which is one of the many reasons that many males are failing in America.  The Decline of Fatherhood According to the organization, Fathermatters, America is rapidly becoming an absentee father society. The importance and influence of fathers in families has been in significant decline since the Industrial Revolution. David Popenoe, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University believes “If present trends continue, the percentage of American children living apart from their biological fathers will reach 50%