Over the years, I have written and spoken about the importance of fathers in our lives.  It's one of those topics I get passionate about. The statistics speak for themselves, as my friend and author Rick Johnson has pointed over the years with his books and seminars.  The National Center for Fathering puts numbers behind the talk: As supported by the data below, children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems. Boys are more likely to become involved in crime, and girls are more likely to become pregnant as teens.  You can read a lot more here.  It's fair to say that many of our social problems are related to the absence of a responsible man in the kids' lives.    My second reason for being an advocate of the importance of fathers is my own father.  He was not a hero, in the sense that a military band...(Read Full Post)