Parenting crisis and its effects on children

The current family crisis is worsening and tends to affect more and more the different members of the family. There is currently an increase in the number of single-parent households and the existence of tendencies and thoughts that devalue the father figure in the family and consider him dispensable in the education of children. This phenomenon that seemed to affect only Western societies is also present today in some African societies.The purpose of this paper is to deepen the importance of the father figure in the education of children based on the reality that his absence causes negative effects on them. Therefore the thesis that children need both the mother and the father for their integral development is defended. All this is approached in the light of Christian anthropology.