The Best Way to Raise Children

Yesterday was Father's Day. And although our culture makes a big deal these days about Father's Day, the role and importance of a father in the American family appears to shrink more each year.  In 1940, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), less than 4 percent of children in America were born out of wedlock. In other words, 96 percent of the children born in 1940 were born in families with a mother and a father. Fast forward to the 21^st century. According to the CDC, in each of the last eight years, more than 40 percent of the children born in the United States have been born to unmarried mothers.

This is cultural suicide. We have become a narcissistic society focused so much on self-actualization that we have little regard to what it means to raise a child without a father at home. While courageous and often heroic efforts are often made by single mothers raising their children, there is an overwhelming body of empirical evidence that shows that the majority of children raised without a dad at home grow up facing grave disadvantages.