FATHER HUNGER

<P><B>We live in a culture in which absentee fatherhood is the norm. Pastor and parenting authority Douglas Wilson brings a powerful message about its true costs to our families and society and encourages men to be the fathers God calls them to be.</B></P><P>When we hear the word <I>fatherless</I> our minds usually turn to orphans to children who have lost their fathers to tragic accidents. For most of us that seems to be a problem outside our own families a painful reality with which others must deal. Not so says Douglas Wilson. Most of our families are starving for fathers even if Dad is around and there's a huge cost to our children and our society because of it.</P><P><I>Why Fathers Really Matter</I> is a thoughtful and timely excursion into our culture of fatherlessness what Wilson calls the central malady of our time. <I>Central</I> because it is the cause of so many of the ills we face-everything from atheism and crime to joyless feminism and paternalistic government expansion-but most important because of the effect it has on families children wives and husbands. Bottom line: when fathers are checked out left out or ruled out it hurts literally everyone. </P><P>We need our fathers and all too often they are nowhere present. <I>Indispensible Dad</I> has one basic goal: to encourage and empower men to be the fathers that God calls them to be and that their families and culture desperately need them to be.</P>