{"id":148793,"date":"2022-06-15T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=148793"},"modified":"2022-11-23T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T19:17:16","slug":"my-father-of-course-the-heroes-we-need-on-father-s-day-and-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/my-father-of-course-the-heroes-we-need-on-father-s-day-and-every-day","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy father, of course\u201d: the heroes we need on Father\u2019s Day and every day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last updated on November 23rd, 2022 at 02:17 pm<\/p>\n

Lord Randolph Churchill, third son of the 7th<\/sup> Duke of Marlborough, rose to prominence in the British government as leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer. But his enduring fame is thanks to his son Sir Winston Churchill, Britain\u2019s indispensable Prime Minister whose dogged courage sustained his beleaguered nation during the dark days of World War II. This was long after the passing of Lord Randolph, whose accomplishments Winston had memorialized in a laudatory two-volume biography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was an undeserved accolade by a son whose father never seemed to have time to be a father. Winston would later mention to his own son, \u201cWe have this evening had a longer period of continuous conversation together than the total which I ever had with my father in the whole course of his life.\u201d Even the few conversations Randolph did manage to have with Winston were punctuated with expressions of the father\u2019s disappointment and disapproval.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder Winston\u2019s daughter Sarah was surprised at her father\u2019s response when, at a family dinner after the war, she pointed to an empty seat at the table and asked, \u201cIf you had the power to put someone in that chair to join us now, whom would you choose?\u201d Expecting him to name a famous figure like Caesar, Napoleon, or his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, Sarah instead heard her father respond, \u201cOh, my father, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Churchill\u2019s life illustrates the intrinsic human yearning for the attention and approbation of one\u2019s father, it also shows that a person need not have a good father to be one. \u201cHe was determined to do things differently with his own children,\u201d notes<\/a> the International Churchill Society, and \u201cvowed that, unlike his father, he would spend time with them and was an affectionate and devoted parent.\u201d Quite an accomplishment for the man who was, as Larry Arnn has emphasized<\/a>, the savior of free government in our day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Churchill understood about fatherhood what President Ronald Reagan would express, that it is \u201call about the things that matter most\u2014 about love and new life, about trust and responsibility, about faithfulness to a family,\u201d and about \u201cfostering children\u2019s physical and emotional growth, encouraging success, [and] easing failure\u201d in \u201ca special and irreplaceable way.\u201d Dr. David Popenoe similarly calls the contribution of fathers \u201cunique and irreplaceable,\u201d bringing \u201cpositive benefits to their children that no other person is as likely to bring.\u201d One need only consult the Family Engagement section<\/a> of the HHS Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center to begin to appreciate the scope of those benefits.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what happens to society when dads are not there to make their contribution? A quarter of a century ago, Dr. Wade Horn referred<\/a> to \u201cthe collapse of fatherhood\u201d as our \u201cgreatest social tragedy\u201d and \u201cthe most disturbing and consequential social trend of our time.\u201d And things have only gone downhill since. Cassie Carstens calls fatherlessness \u201cthe most fundamental flaw in society,\u201d while the National Center for Fathering insists that \u201cif it were classified as a disease, fatherlessness would be an epidemic worthy of attention as a national emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the consequences are catastrophic. Summarizing a study by sociologists from three prestigious universities, Christopher Brown explains<\/a> that father absence puts children at \u201cincreased risk of living in poverty, performing poorly in school, emotional and behavioral problems, becoming violent, getting pregnant (or getting someone pregnant) as a teen, winding up in prison or jail, and committing suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never has the world needed faithful fathers more than now. As Father\u2019s Day is celebrated<\/a> around the globe, it points us, in the words of President Reagan, \u201cto those men\u2014our natural fathers, adoptive fathers and foster fathers\u2014who deserve our deepest respect and devotion.\u201d And \u201cas we recall the ancient and loving command to honor our fathers, [may] we resolve to do so by becoming ourselves parents and citizens who are worthy of honor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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