****They want to be around someone who can teach them how to fish, how to play a sport, why they should open a door for a woman?****
It is more important to talk to (and live through example) your kids about right and wrong, why a work ethic is good, how to love your neighbor as God intends, how to have a relationship with Jesus and the Father through the Holy Spirit, how to be fiscally sound...These are the things that make a person whole.
Don’t get me wrong, ResponseAbility. God is extremely important in all of our lives. My point is that many boys are without fathers due to being illegitimate, Dad divorces and isn’t around or Dad dies. Every boy wants a male role model to emulate. Essentially, a Dad is vitally important (yeah, I know... that isn’t PC or what the media tells us). The development of a boy into a man doesn’t just occur naturally. He isn’t a little boy one day and a productive, God fearing, hard working, responsible man without some help or guidance. That is why this case sickens me. Those young boys wanted to know God, be taught responsibility, a work ethic... everything you and I define as “manhood”. That basic need was exploited, manipulated and twisted into something sick and used for evil.