Fathers, step up

Douglas Wilson posts on the importance of dads:

“When a child has grown up under the devastation of unmitting harshness (and sometimes not so unwitting), or the devastation of neglect, the one thing a father may not say is that it ‘was not that big a deal.’ Of course it was a big deal. Your child is (hopefully) going to be praying the Lord’s Prayer for the rest of his life. What will naturally, readily, come to mind whenever he starts, whenever he says, ‘Our Father . . .’ What does that mean to him, and who taught it to him?”