Post #6

The article I read was “Dear Dads: Save Your Sons” by Christopher N. Bacorn and was published by Newsweek on December 6^th, 1992. This article is about 15 year old boy who is in a gang, into alcohol, violence and failing grades due to his father leaving. He became more unmanageable and hurt someone in a fight.  The mother expressed her concerns to Bacorn. She wishes that he had a male role model in his life. The counselor Bacorn tried talking to him but that didn’t work because he thought there was nothing wrong with him.  He also talks about, what has happened to the fathers? Where are they? Bacorn says they aren’t at PTA meetings or holding a sick child in a pediatrician’s office they are at home, golf course, drinking, or fishing. Bacorn talks about how poverty prevention concepts says that if fathers were to spend time with their children it would cause less hunger and fewer pregnancy’s. Bacorn told the mother to try and get him to play sports so he can be around other boys would expose him to teamwork, cooperation and friendly competition. That didn’t work he said “it is for dorks” so the boy told his mom it was time to leave. This left Bacorn with a measure of hopelessness. 

I thought this article was very interesting. I believe that it is very important for a child to have a father in their life. I have seen what it does to families when the father leaves. It leads to alcohol, drugs and violence. The sad part is that fathers leaving family’s happen more than we actual realize. Fathers need to put their kids before themselves, meaning that they need to set time away from their activity’s to spend with their child.