Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story
John Sowers
Zondervan, 2010, 144 pages, $14.99
Statistics have shown that one-to-one mentoring is the most effective way to reach a fatherless child. Children with mentors are 46 percent less likely to do drugs, 33 percent less likely to resort to violence, 53 percent less likely to drop out of school and 59 percent more likely to improve their grades. One-to-one mentoring also has been shown to lower the rates of teen pregnancy, suicide and gage involvement in communities.
Mentoring tells a child that he or she is cared for, matters and is not alone. Mentoring shows a child how to be respectful and how to interact with peers and elders. Mentoring gives a child confidence in his or her talents, gifts and natural abilities, which helps shape pursuits, education and eventual occupation.
Many counselors agree that healthy, loving human relationships are the most powerful behavior modifiers in the world. Fatherless children lack these loving relationships and often feel lonely, flawed and incomplete. It is in relationships where the fatherless generation has been wounded the most deeply. Thus, it is in relationships where reconciliation must begin.
