A father is not a “worldly thing”. He is a requirement for children. Children born abandoned by their fathers are permanently damaged by that loss.
It’s no doubt why fornication has always been a sin and marriage is the foundation of all human societies.
Also, it’s too bad social science is a leftist tool now. They used to teach the truth about the importance of the family and the consequences of it’s destruction.
I forget which one but Thomas Sowell has a book about how black families were comparable to white ones up until the early 1960’s and Johnson’s Great Society.