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Bluebag Media
Watch DOGS
kick-off brings in new dads
GREENVILLE – “There are two kinds of fatherlessness,” said Chief Watch
DOG Tom Warner to a room full of dads Sept. 23 at Woodland Heights.
“There’s the physical… he’s not there in the child’s life. Then there’s
the emotional; he may be there but he’s not involved…
“According to studies emotional fatherlessness may actually be more
damaging to a child than the physical.”
Warner was speaking to potential new recruits for Woodland’s Watch DOGS
(Dads Of Great Students) program. He told them a male role model in a
child’s life is not more important than that of the mother; but it’s
just as important. “Kids with positive male role models develop more
academically, socially, spiritually…
“Where the father is absent the child is five times more likely to
experience poverty and has a higher risk of crime, substance abuse and
smoking; a girl is seven times more likely to become pregnant.
According to Health & Human Services fatherless children are twice
as likely to drop out of school.”
Warner told the group the Watch DOG program has been so successful
nationally it has been endorsed by the President’s Council. It brings
dads into the school environment, and is especially important where
there is no positive male role model in the home. “Fathers play an
important role,” he said. “Kids watch us, no matter what we do.” He
asked the assembled dads to come to the school and help them create the
best educational opportunity possible for the kids...
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