I just wanted to thank you for your book “Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters”.
Dear Dr. Meeker,
I just wanted to thank you for your book “Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters”.
As a new father to an 8-month-old daughter, I thought I knew enough on what it meant to be a good dad. I was aware that she would one day grow up, and when those teen years came along, there would be that normal friction that occurs with those confusing years. But then I happened across your book, and after flipping through a few chapters, I knew it was a book I had to have.
The topics you covered were not only informative and inspiring, but at times just plain scary. I didn’t realize what challenges my daughter will have to face before the age of 8, let alone 15. I didn’t know how poisonous this MTV culture was, bombarding little impressionable girls with toxic ideas of what beauty is, its casual ideas on sex and drugs, and how influential young boys can be on vulnerable girls.
One of the most thought provoking and heartbreaking examples I can recall from the book was the fourth-grade girl from a good family who hated her father because she inadvertently came across a violent rape scene on TV before dinner. As a result of that exposure, the girl came to the conclusion that all sex was like this, and her father must have put her mother through that kind of pain in order for her to be born.
