Father Deficiency

by Stewart, Frank H.

• ISBN13: 9781456763534
• ISBN10: 1456763539
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-19
• Publisher: Authorhouse

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Take a look at some of the excerpts from the book Father Deficiency...29 Things Every Person Need To Know. The writer gives 29 things not only father deficient individuals need to know but every person. It is impossible to live in this world and not come in contact with a father deficient person. More than likely, you are living with, working with, or related to a person with FD. This is not a book of statistics but the story of one person's journey with fatherlessness and the thousands he's encountered. It is formatted in easy-to-read chapters with illustrations from the soul. FATHER DEFICIENCY goes beyond just being fatherless but also includes fathers who were present yet absent. This is a must-read for every person that was reared without a loving father -- for every leader, teacher, and youth minister. The Concept of Father Deficiency What is father deficiency? Scurvy is a disease caused by a lack of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in the diet. Scurvy has been known since ancient times. It was once a common disease among sailors. During long voyages, sailors rarely had fresh fruit and vegetables. They lived on salt beef and hardtack (dry biscuit) for weeks at a time. Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama lost 100 out of 170 men from scurvy. In 1753, James Lind, a Scottish physician, showed that eating oranges and lemons would cure scurvy and that adding lemon juice to the diet would prevent the disease. World Book Encyclopedia Scurvy What a tragedy that so many men died from a disease that could have been so easily cured or prevented. They didn't need a miracle breakthrough drug. Simply eating oranges could have prevented this great tragedy and loss of life. This story, though tragic, gives us powerful insightful on the danger of a vitamin deficiency. One hundred men died because of the lack of a vitamin. So it is with many of our young men and women. They are on a ship isolated from their fathers, whether it is by physical distance or emotionally distance. What they are suffering from is not having a good healthy RelationSHIP with their fathers. I am sure the captain was very puzzled by the deaths of over one hundred of his men. I can only imagine him thinking it was some deadly contagious plague or an outbreak of some unknown epidemic. I can only wonder what his reaction would have been to learn it was a vitamin deficiency, and all he needed to do was bring oranges and lemons aboard. I believe even today we are puzzled over some children's behaviors when the real culprit is that they are father deficient. However, when we look at the plague Father Deficiency (FD), we tend to treat the symptoms and not the cause. Usually, we treat the symptoms of FD with medications, suspensions, expulsions, physical abuse, mental abuse, and even incarceration. It is one of the very few diseases that we know the cause, but as a whole we continue to treat the symptoms. Can you imagine the outcry from society if 24 million people had a contagious disease that affected them physically and emotionally? Well, in the greatest country on the planet we have 24 million children growing up in a home without their father. (according to the National Fatherhood Initiative). Fatherlessness is the greatest epidemic and plague we have ever seen, and if money is any indicator, it can be seen in the price we pay every year in this country. "The One Hundred Billion Dollar Man: The Public Costs of Father Absence." National Fatherhood Initiative Data The potential hopelessness that fatherlessness brings into the life of a person can be best summed up by the following quotes: "Fatherlessness is the most destructive trend of our generation." Fatherless America (David Blankenhorn) "The absence of a father is a stronger factor than poverty in contributing to juvenile delinquency." Dr. Loren Moshen, of the National Institute of Mental Health, analyzed the following U.S. census figures: However, the statistic that depicts the greatest impact of Father Deficiency on young lives is found in the translation of the statistic on suicide. Children that come from fatherless homes are 5 times more likely to commit suicide. Can you imagine being 5 times more likely to commit suicide because daddy was not there? Have You Stolen Your Father's Idols? In the book of Genesis 31:19, at the time Jacob and Rachel left, after Jacob had served Laban, her father, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father's household idols and took them with her. "Rachel stole her father's idols", is a statement that we would expect to read in today's paper, yet this was written thousands of years ago. It describes the condition of so many father deficient individuals in the twenty-first century. The misfortune of many that are father deficient is that they didn't received what they needed from their fathers. Unfortunately, some steal what they didn't need -- their fathers' idols. ARE YOU WORSHIPING YOUR FATHER'S IDOLS? Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years. Like his father Manasseh, he sinned against the Lord, and he worshiped the idols that his father had worshiped. A father's devotion to his idols is one of the main reasons for Father Deficiency! TEARING DOWN YOUR FATHER's IDOLS In Judges 6:25, the Lord came to Gideon by night and told him, "Take your father's young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it." In the above story, Gideon not only chose not to worship his father's idols but also to boldly tear them down. In the previous two chapters, we have studied how Rachel stole her father's idols, followed by how Amon worshipped his father's idols. We now turn to the monumental task that Gideon faced in his generation, which we also face in our generation -- the destruction of our fathers' idols.