Because our kids today are experiencing a relational disconnect. Almost half of today's young people have lived through their parents' divorce.
Teenagers spend an average of three and one-half hours alone every day.
A study of 1,337 medical doctors who graduated from John Hopkins University between 1948 and 1964 found that lack of closeness with parents was the only single common factor to hypertension, coronary heart disease, malignant tumors, mental illness and suicide. Research shows that an emotionally or physically absent father contributes to a child's low motivation for achievement, inability to defer immediate gratification for later rewards, low self-esteem and susceptibility to group influence and to juvenile delinquency. Analysis of the U. S. census figures show the absence of a father to be a stronger factor than poverty in contributing to juvenile delinquency.