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Safety Expert: School Shootings Signal Need for Dads' Involvement
By Jim Brown and Jenni Parker
AgapePress
October 13, 2006
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According to Moore, when dads go into the schools and connect in a positive way, their kids tend to get higher grades and interact better with their fellow students. But unfortunately, he points out, many men do not recognize the importance of getting involved.
"I, like most men in America today, have fallen prey to the lie that says dads will be the breadwinners and moms will raise the kids," the school safety expert admits. According to that line of thinking, he asserts, moms "go to school, and moms do PTA and parent-teacher conferences," leaving fathers free to concentrate on priorities other than their children.
As a result, Moore contends, "what we as fathers have done over the last several generations is that we planted seeds of inattention and abandonment in our children. And because of that action, today our nation is reaping a harvest of fatherless families and violent schools."
This is a problem that "has to stop yesterday," Moore insists. And hopefully, he says, the latest string of school shootings, tragic as it is, will serve as a wake-up call for men across the U.S., fathers and father figures alike, helping them to realize how necessary their influence is.
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