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Strong Fathers Are Crucial for Society to Thrive and the Government Doesn’t Know It

Government programs that claim to support families actually cut fathers out of the picture—and that results in broken families and higher poverty rates, according to Delano Squires.

The Heritage Foundation hosted the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center on Tuesday to lead a panel discussion titled “Invisible Men: How Guaranteed Income Programs for New Moms Diminish Dads,” based on Squires’ latest book.

Squires and three other speakers addressed how welfare programs incentivize single-mother homes and how the black community, in particular, has suffered from a lack of attention to the importance of fathers.

“Fathers are not, by definition, an attachment,” Anthony B. Bradley of the Acton Institute said. “They are crucial to the thriving of children. And if we want healthy families, healthy communities, and healthy societies, we have a duty to invest in fathers.”

Most physical and behavioral issues are the result of absent fathers, according to Bradley. Fatherless children have a higher likelihood of juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, cancer, diabetes, and even an untimely onset of puberty. 

Martin Brown, former assistant secretary of health and human resources in Virginia, said that he discovered while working in welfare that his state’s social policies “limited the ability of........

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