INTERVIEW | Kris Vallotton on Devastating 'Pandemic of Fatherlessness' in America
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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America is suffering from a pandemic that is not a virus, it “is a pandemic of fatherlessness.” That’s according to Pastor Kris Vallotton, author of the new book, “Up Rising: The Epic Battle for the Most Fatherless Generation in History.”
“Fifty-one percent of all children in America right now are born out of wedlock, 51%,” Vallotton, the senior associate leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, says. “In 1950, 4% of Americans were born out of wedlock.”
The results of children growing up without fathers in the home are devastating, Vallotton says, with data revealing that “75% of all inmates grew up without a father,” and “63% of all youth suicides come from fatherless homes.”
Vallotton also points to a rise in transgenderism and gay marriage as a side effect of fatherlessness, because “when we embrace gay marriage… what we said is that you can have two mommies and two daddies, because mommies and daddies are interchangeable.”
Vallotton joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share his own personal story of losing his father as a young boy and how that affected his life, and to offer a hopeful solution for how children can experience the love of a father amid a fatherless generation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Circle podcast for Monday, January 9th, I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:10.5 | America is suffering from an illness that is not a virus, it's a pandemic of fatherlessness. |
| 0:17.4 | That's according to Chris Valentin, pastor, speaker, podcast host, and author of the new |
| 0:22.8 | book Uprising, the epic battle for the most fatherless generation in history. |
| 0:28.9 | The results of fatherlessness in America are devastating. |
| 0:32.8 | Valentin says that a link can be drawn between the 51% of children in America born out of |
| 0:38.5 | wedlock to the rise in gender confusion, youth suicide, and high school dropout rates. |
| 0:44.8 | Valentin joins me on the show today to discuss how we can trace many issues within society |
| 0:49.8 | today to this lack of fatherlessness in the home, and he also offers solutions to this |
| 0:55.6 | pandemic. |
| 0:56.6 | Stay tuned for our conversation after this. |
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| 1:30.8 | Arguably the greatest crisis in this generation is that of fatherlessness. |
| 1:36.9 | It's an issue that honestly affects every single sphere of society. |
| 1:42.0 | Pastor Chris Valentin's new book Uprising, the epic battle for the most fatherless generation |
| 1:48.5 | in history addresses the crisis of fatherlessness, but also offers some really practical and |
| 1:54.1 | powerful solutions for how we can overcome these challenges. |
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