Mal 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Feminism, selfish men & the breakdown of the family have had a devistating effects on our culture.
Sadly, many Christians have accepted many of the same philosophical foundations — albeit in a less severe version — of the anti-family, hyper-individualistic, anti-child, hyper egalitarian, hedonistic world around them.
Even worse, whether its the 100 million plus orphans around the world, or the unborn scheduled for slaughter here, or the millions of kids & adults in broken homes needing the hope of the Gospel lived out in word, in deed, in power, and in service — we, in the church, ignore the cries of the fatherless while thinking we are super-spiritual & mature because of our emotions or having our theological ducks in a row . . .

Jam 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Mic 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

How much more pronouced are these problems in the third world, the inner city, the Delta. The fields are white for harvest but the laborers are few . . .
May God have mercy.
Statistics Regarding Fatherless and its Effect on Children and Families

Seventy-two percent of all teenage murderers grew up without fathers

Fatherless children are eleven times more likely then are children from intact families to exhibit violent behavior.

Eighty percent of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes.

Seventy percent of the kids now incarcerated in juvenile corrections facilities grew up in a single parent environment

Three out of four teen suicides occur in single-parent families

Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, the daughters of single parents are 164-percent more likely to become pregnant before marriage compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present,

53 percent are more likely to marry as teenagers

Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, 92 percent more likely to dissolve their own marriages

The absence of a biological father increases by 900 percent a daughter’s vulnerability to rape and sexual abuse (often these assaults are committed by stepfathers or the boyfriends of custodial mothers).

Read the rest here.