Young men need fathers
Hello brothers, I'm new to the Heroic Men team! My name is Chris Scroggins, the mission development officer. Just today, a good friend sent me some latest research: the Family to Prison or College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men's Transition to Adulthood.
It's another confirmation of the importance of the work Heroic Men is doing across North America. The author shares that young men need fathers. This is a truth that more and more realize mustn't be taken for granted.
Young men who come from broken families have a greater chance of going to prison than graduating from college, the data reveals. And this fact was across race, age, background in all the datasets.
God created marriage and blessed it in the Garden of Eden. It has been his plan all along that children grow up and are nurtured inside of this family structure, a mother and a father.
It then is vital that we help men understand their role in this Divine Plan, and step up to embrace it and spread this message to other men!
It's providential that this article came out this week before our Summit. One more voice encouraging us to continue our work of evangelizing men everywhere, inspiring them to be the men Christ is calling them to be!
If so, we can change the culture around us! I'm really excited for the Heroic Men's Summit, and I am looking forward to meeting you all out there next week.
Blessings brothers! See you next week!
-Chris
It's another confirmation of the importance of the work Heroic Men is doing across North America. The author shares that young men need fathers. This is a truth that more and more realize mustn't be taken for granted.
Young men who come from broken families have a greater chance of going to prison than graduating from college, the data reveals. And this fact was across race, age, background in all the datasets.
God created marriage and blessed it in the Garden of Eden. It has been his plan all along that children grow up and are nurtured inside of this family structure, a mother and a father.
It then is vital that we help men understand their role in this Divine Plan, and step up to embrace it and spread this message to other men!
It's providential that this article came out this week before our Summit. One more voice encouraging us to continue our work of evangelizing men everywhere, inspiring them to be the men Christ is calling them to be!
If so, we can change the culture around us! I'm really excited for the Heroic Men's Summit, and I am looking forward to meeting you all out there next week.
Blessings brothers! See you next week!
-Chris
The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men's Transition to Adulthood
A growing minority of young men are floundering. “Failure to launch” is a description that’s all too common. Consider working a stable job—a decent proxy for whether someone has their life together. For young men (ages 16-24), labor force participation rates are dropping. In 1980, the share of young men who were looking for or had a job was 84%, but now it has dropped to 60 percent.
Likewise, male enrollment in college is declining, so quickly, in fact, that only about 4-in-10 college students are now male. Finally, young men are 3-4 times more likely to spend any time in jail or prison compared to young women by the time they turn about 30, according to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997).
The bottom line is that on many fronts, too many young men are not successfully transitioning into adulthood today.
Likewise, male enrollment in college is declining, so quickly, in fact, that only about 4-in-10 college students are now male. Finally, young men are 3-4 times more likely to spend any time in jail or prison compared to young women by the time they turn about 30, according to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997).
The bottom line is that on many fronts, too many young men are not successfully transitioning into adulthood today.
Check out this inspiring, punchy video from Mark McElrath about this week's summit!
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