Emy Moore Brookins

And I have struggled with that.

emotional, physical fatherlessness, and it has impacted my life greatly.

And it hurts me to say that I have been a part of a statistic that has also hurt so many other people my age and even beyond that.

So many people in the body of Christ have lacked the knowledge of what it's like to be loved by a father.

And I wanted to curate a message specifically catering to that, where we talk about what it means to be a daughter or son in the eyes of God, to be owned and belonged by him, and have a sense of belonging for those who do not know.

And even to people who grew up with two-parent households and, you know, your parents were...

not necessarily divorced, or you didn't go through a crazy tragedy, but maybe you were emotionally or mentally neglected, I wanna let you know that God has not forsaken you or abandoned you, that he is the greatest of fathers.

And even if you have a great father and a great mother, and if you don't sense an orphanage in spirit, I wanna encourage you that even through the bestest fathers and mothers here on earth, because there are so, so, so, so, so, so many, God is still a better father.

And today we're going to talk about fatherlessness.

We're going to talk about how fatherlessness has impacted our generation tremendously.

Fatherlessness is the highest it's ever been ever.

I want to start off the podcast by naming a few very scary and terrifying statistics.

And Gen Z fatherlessness is the highest it's ever been.

Around 80% of single parent households are headed by single mothers.

So even in single parent households, usually the dominating parental figure is always a single mother household.

Fathers have left the picture.

They have left children behind.

They have pursued a life outside of their children.

and they have left the responsibility all upon mothers.

And according to recent US Census Bureau data, about 24 to 25% of US children live without a biological step or adoptive father in the household.