“Raising a Modern Day Knight” is a wonderful book for a person to read who has lived a life without a dad in the home. Robert Lewis is the writer.

My dad divorced my mom when I was 6 years old, and it really had an effect on my life.

Robert Lewis stated that, in 1996, 92 percent of convicted, violent felons were men. He went on to say the lifetime chance a person will go to prison is 1.8 percent for women, 11.3 percent for men.

I am thankful to God I had a godly mother and a brother who taught me right from wrong and kept me out of such a place.

Boys become men in the presence of a clear vision for manhood. But as the writer of Proverbs notes: “Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained.”

Boys get out of control, and society suffers.

Margaret Meade made the following observation: “The central problem of every society is to define appropriate roles for the men.”

Lewis stated his dad drank all the time and was drunk when Lewis married his wife and didn’t attend the wedding.

Author George Gilder adds: Wise societies provide ample means for young men to affirm themselves without afflicting others. Psychologically, men are far more fragile than women. Men struggle with their identity much more than women do.

I told a man I work with that so many young boys are raised by their mom and hardly ever see their dad. Our prisons are filled with them. He agreed with what I said.

It is wonderful to see dads who are there for their sons. Drugs and alcohol have ruined many lives and is the tool of Satan to destroy our young people. I have five children and have asked myself if I could walk away from them. The answer always is no. I love my children.

Randall Harrison

Newnan