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Sayyid Qutb is one of the founding fathers of fanatical Islam, one of the ideologues that inspired Osama bin Laden.
Some see their barbers more than they see their fathers.
EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.
I went to this very proper Christian school taught by nuns, fathers, brothers, sisters.
How many fathers in the room?
But in reality, I don't know why I was really surprised by this story, because when I was five years old, and my mother, like mothers and fathers all across the United States, was taking me to school to enroll, she pushed my wheelchair to the school in walking distance to our house, pulled the wheelchair up the steps into the school, and we were greeted by the principal.
Basically, it's asking: do rich fathers have rich sons and poor fathers have poor sons, or is there no relationship between the two?
And in Scandinavian countries, fathers' income is much less important.
And so it's anachronistically a classification by fathers' occupations, so single parents go on their own.
And Xenophon's book on Cyrus on how you ran a diverse society was one of the great textbooks that inspired the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution.
A study I cite in this TIME magazine covering in the book "The Sibling Effect," found 70 percent of fathers and 65 percent of mothers exhibit a preference for at least one child.
And it's not just that fathers are habitually wrapped around the fingers of their little girls, though I can tell you that, as the father of two girls, that part definitely plays a role.
And in this particular chapter, it's children whose mothers wouldn't allow them to travel to the photographic shoot for fear that their fathers would kidnap them during it.
These mothers and fathers and sons and daughters are there for one reason and one reason only: they cannot afford to pay the price of their freedom.
So rather than viewing their former regimes as generous if overprotective fathers, they viewed them as essentially prison wardens.
Globally, 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, and the work I did in Uganda represents the traditional approach to these problems that has been practiced since 1944, when winners of World War II, 500 founding fathers, and one lonely founding mother, gathered in New Hampshire, USA, to establish the Bretton Woods institutions, including the World Bank.
At this moment, I knew the girls needed a way to connect with their fathers.
These girls just needed a way to invite their fathers into their lives on their own terms.
So I asked the girls, "How can we help other girls develop healthy relationships with their fathers?"
They started dreaming about the decorations, invitations, the dresses they were going to wear, and what their fathers could and could not wear.
So we had a dance, and girls and their fathers came in multitudes.
Because one thing he did know, that when fathers are connected to their children, it is less likely that they will return.
The girls were dressed in their Sunday best, and the fathers traded in their yellow and blue jumpsuits for shirts and ties.
The fathers and daughters even experienced an opportunity to have a physical connection, something that a lot of them didn't even have for a while.
Fathers were in a space where they were able to make their daughter's plate, and pull out her chair and extend his hand for a dance.
And that is why it is extremely special for me to make sure that these girls are connected to their fathers, especially those who are separated because of barbed wires and metal doors.
We have just created a form for girls who have heavy questions on their heart to be in a position to ask their fathers those questions and given the fathers the freedom to answer.
Because we know that the fathers are even leaving with this one thought: What type of woman am I preparing to put in the world?
And I see their parents and their fathers who, like my own, advocate for them, despite and even in the face of daunting opposition.
As we moved, and I went to talk to the fathers, the fathers, of course, you can imagine what they said: "We want a school for boys."
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