So what does having a father at home have to do with raising healthy kids?

I agree, and the great psychiatrist Eric Berne agreed even more. He postulated a formula for the formation of a successful person:
Parent of opposite gender tells you what to do/be; parent of same gender shows you how.

Obviously not a few of the posters on this forum have actually been through today's modern "family" court process as a white, hetero male.

The government views such as PARIAHS and THE ENEMY to be forced out of the home at all costs. In the Western world, upon birth (and before), women are granted "custodial" and supreme authority over any and all children. This is the problem with thinking that a pregnancy is simply a "part" of the woman's body in which she has ultimate authority over: it filters down to post natal as well: (see http://www.shrink4men.com/2011/05/17/does-your-wife-or-ex-wife-have-a-golden-uterus-complex-15-characteristics-of-the-golden-uterus/)

Schools, churches, daycares, government agencies, especially in BLUE states will tell you that dad has ZERO rights; his only job is to pay matriarchy aka "child" support. They have government agencies to enforce this that get matching fed kickbacks for the greatest amount of "child" support mandated and collected (search: Title IV-D)

There is no such government agency as "Equal/Shared Parenting Enforcement Agency." Today ALL correction of children is equated with ABUSE. Mom is free to trash dad in front of the children and block dad's visitation at will; especially if said dad has DARED to move on after he is dumped.

Most divorce filings are filed by MOM not dad. Soon dad has run out of the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees that he needs to protect his basic parental rights and eventually gives up in hopelessness.

Now mom is free to coddle her child(ren) yet inappropriately give them what I call "A.S.S." (adult spousal status). Junior has the same rights as an adult spouse would in his "single mom" home, making choices as to where they will live, what groceries they will buy and often privy to adult conversation as Junior becomes mommy's "shoulder to cry on." Junior likes his "adult" status and when dad tries to institute normal parent/child relationship on his time, providing he is "allowed" it by mom, he is rebuked by both Junior AND mom. Child Protective Services is often called and trumped up charges against dad are launched. All discipline, boundaries and structure is removed from Junior's life.

Meanwhile mom continues to molly coddle Junior or Sally and when they become a little too unmanageable after some time, she then puts them on MEDS.

Junior/Sally get very little exercise, fresh air, non-junk food meals (mom is too frazzled and depressed to cook), or anything educational. Often fed a steady diet of "Sponge Bob" or such other garbage (have you seen kid's cartoons these days? just a bunch of bodily function noises) Add in a constant stream of video games and an extremely defensive posture by mom to enable and excuse Junior/Sally's negative behavior and VOILA! You have today's messed up, spoiled, lazy, self-absorbed, entitled, narcissistic, wimpy EMO child!

I have a niece that was raised without morals. She posted on her facebook that her daughter does not need a father. Only boys need fathers. She had no father and her daughter was conceived during a one night stand. Thank god I have alerted my daughters to her disgusting ways.

While there is sorrow and loss, the departed is remembered with loving thoughts and words; not true in a divorce where there is often much bitterness and torn loyalty.