{"id":2329,"date":"2023-04-21T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2023-04-21T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T10:08:15","slug":"the-fatherless-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Fatherless Epidemic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-fatherless-epidemic\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-fatherless-epidemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leah Klett, with Christian Post, writes of Eric Swithin, founder of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatherlessepidemic.org\/\">The Alliance for Ending the Fatherless Epidemic<\/a>. Swithin believes most of the issues permeating society can be traced back to fatherlessness, a situation he says Satan is using to undermine God\u2019s plan for the world He created.\u00a0Last month the Alliance released an online video documentary entitled \u201cThe Fatherless Epidemic.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWe can talk about poverty, education, mental illness, substance abuse, and on and on. These are all traced back to a fatherlessness issue,\u201d Swithin says.<\/p>\n<p>Swithin is right. Fatherlessness is at epidemic levels in our country. In fact, right now in Milwaukee, well over eighty percent of the babies born are born to single moms. Many of these babies will never know their fathers\u2014and most will suffer a host of ills because of that. Churches need to champion marriage while still finding ways to help fatherless children.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/the-fatherless-epidemic\/ Leah Klett, with Christian Post, writes of Eric Swithin,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}