In Annie's life the sun does come out tomorrow when Daddy Warbucks uses his wealthy pull to bring her home to live in his mansioned-fatherhood. Who has not been inspired by this true American classic?
In today's world the sun comes out when ... or even if ... Daddy's check arrives. For many children of divorce that check is the only tangible evidence they have had at one time a father to even think about them ... not to mention even visit them.
While this is sad in and of itself, the nasty thunderstorm clouds that hide the sun from coming out for us is our society's pressured acceptance of relegating fathers to Ben Franklin, George Washington, and their ilk ($$$$$$) ... while at the same time castrating fatherhood.
David Blankenhorn poignantly insists that the best answer for today's rampant drugs, sex, and violence youth culture is fatherhood. He does not simply mean making deadbeat dads pay their child support. He is calling on our society to work towards reinvesting in a fully married, male fatherhood. The stock market of secular-progressive androgyny has long crashed, leaving American society in deep depression.
"For children, doing without a father's money is the easy part. Money influences what you have and what you can do. Fathers shape who you are" (David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America: Confronting our Most Urgent Social Problem, p. 45).
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