Helmets on and gear up for a close-up look at the anguished plight of children, teens, and young adults growing up without supportive fathers. While the role of dads in the home continues to be marginalized, the negative effects of their absence is ever-increasing. In Father Away From Me, the author's personal experience of life in a fatherless home is a tender narrative that cross-connects with other men and their own disadvantaged journeys. An awakening--and a challenge--to all fathers (and fathers-to-be) is heralded throughout the book, while expressing hope for a return to a time when the integrous leadership of loving, committed dads was welcomed throughout the land.

This autobiographical account of the assorted difficulties kids face without dad guiding them through the various cycles of growth is balanced with ideas on how to solve this problem. Using a tactical method of true storytelling along with sprinkles of fictional episodes, Father Away From Me invites the reader to participate in its efforts to consider ways to bring dad home and keep him there. When all is said and done, the expected result is for ultimate fatherhood to be clearly understood, so that a life of wholesome abundance will be more easily attained.