June 2018 SPECIAL EDITION June 2015 Issue | Page 6

June 2015 There is a crisis in America. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 24 million children in America - one out of three - live without their biological father in the home. Consequently, there is a “father factor” in nearly all of the societal ills facing America today. Research shows when a child is raised in a father-absent home, he or she is affected in the following ways... As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. -Psalm 103:13-14 -6-