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(Video) Putting Fatherhood Back in The Picture

  
  
  

Recently on FoxNews Live, Lewis Kostiner and Juan Williams spoke to Jonathan Hunt, host of "On the Hunt", on how men from all walks of life are working to be great fathers, all because of NFI's programming.

If you can't see the video, click here

The interview centered around the book titled, "Choosing Fatherhood: America's Second Chance" which contains photographs from Lewis Kostiner's travels and meeting with 150 fathers from all walks of life in 17 states and 39 cities who had at least one thing in common – they were all working hard to be the best dads they could be.  

Kostiner says he became aware of the national crisis of father absense while attending a luncheon with NFI. He then decided he would take photographs and illustrate how NFI's Programming was helping change the father absence problem in America. 

Juan Williams wrote the introduction to the book and calls father absence, "the human tradegy of our time". He writes in the introduction, "No government can hold a child's hand or read to him at bedtime. No child will ever call a government "daddy". Regardless of a man's job status, or the struggles inherant in every romantic relationship, a child ideally needs two parents."

Juan continues, "we need to be child-focused...let's put the dad back in the picture...that's what Mr. Kostiner's book does."

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Amid all the political wranglings and unrest, Fatherhood may be the most important issue of today. I fully believe that father is THE foundation to family and therefore, community. Continue to discuss and promote dialogue of this topic.
Posted @ Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:05 AM by Ronald E. Burel
children that have access to a male or female role-model as well the parent are not that badly off compared to an orphan. It is when the sole parent or orphanage raises a girl or boy to the age of 11 that the sole parent does seek a person of the same sex/ or opposite sex to be the child's role model for the rest of the child's life. yes, a big brother type, if the sole parent is a mother or a big sister if the sole parent is a father. In the example of an orphanage, they require a married couple to raise the kid. 
at the age of 11 or 12 that the child is looking for someone to be their role-model.
Posted @ Friday, March 08, 2013 8:06 AM by Cecil j Marton
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