Dads: 5 Reasons Your Kids Need You Now

If you don’t raise them someone else will.

There are industries who are helping to normalize certain things, because they want to sell their products to your children.

It is more profitable to start influencing your kids now than later:

 social media companies
, drug companies
, pornographers
, Hollywood
, clothing stores, etc.

According to a report from the US Department of Justice, children from FATHERLESS homes account for:

  • 63% of youth suicides
  • 90% of all homeless and runaway children
  • 85% of all children who show behavioral disorders
  • 
80% of rapists with anger problems
  • 
71% of all high school dropouts
  • 75% of adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers
  • 
85% of youths in prison
  • 71% of pregnant teenagers
  • 63% of youth suicides

According to the US Census Bureau, research shows when a child is raised in a father-ABSENT home, they are affected in the following ways:

  • 4 times greater for poverty
  • 
7 times more likely to become pregnant as a teen
  • 
More likely to have behavioral problems
  • 
More likely to face abuse and neglect
  • 2 times greater risk of infant mortality
  • More likely to abuse drugs and alcohol
  • More likely to go to prison
  • 2 times more likely to suffer obesity
  • 
More likely to commit crime
  • 2 times more likely to drop out of high school

Your children are not living in the same world that you grew up in.

The drugs they are tempted with are stronger.

The pressure to have sex is more prevalent in culture.

Social media uses algorithms to keep people scrolling for hours through addictive habits.

School shootings have increased exponentially (92 school shootings between 2018 and 2021
).

According to the FBI, there are an estimated 500,000 online predators active each day.

Children between the ages of 12 and 15 are especially susceptible to be groomed or manipulated by adults they meet online.

Mom can’t do it alone anymore

No matter what society tries to tell you, your kids need you. Now more than ever.

Your kids need you in their life, as their dad.