In Depth:  Mary Kassian

Does every child need a father? Increasingly, our society's answer to this question is no, or at least, not necessarily.

The most important absence our society must confront is not the absence of fathers, but the absence of our belief in fathers.* Few idea shifts in this century have had such enormous implications. At stake is who we are as male and female, what type of society we will become, and, even more importantly, the way we understand and relate to God.