This document discusses the importance of fathers and highlights the problem of fatherlessness. It notes that the word "father" appears 979 times in the Bible, while "fatherless" appears 43 times. It references a verse from Luke about a father embracing his son who had gone astray. The document calls fatherlessness a huge epidemic and lack of intentional fathering, urging people to defend the cause of the fatherless as instructed in Isaiah 1:17.