GMen Newsletter April 2012

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News

“Social factors add to father absence, but the makers of “Courageous” aren't interested in blaming society. Instead, they are providing a masculine call to buck the trend!”

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s the police force of Albany, Georgia, attempts to stop drug smuggling in the city, the sheriff

urges his deputies to spend time with their families based on statistics that fatherless children are several times more likely than those with fathers to turn to a life of crime. The U.S. is becoming a society without fathers. In the 30 years between 1970 and

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2000, the percentage of father absent homes has more than doubled. And it’s getting worse, with disturbing consequences. Kids raised in father absence, are more likely to live in poverty, suffer illness or death, be


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