What happens to a society when fathers disappear?

Fatherlessness is more than the absence of a man in a home. It can leave wounds that shape identity, relationships, emotional wellbeing, families, and communities for generations.

In INVISIBLE MEN: The Silent Crisis of a Fatherless Society, Dr. Veronica Abeh Forchu examines the far-reaching consequences of fatherlessness through the lenses of mental health, medicine, social awareness, and faith. With clinical insight and compassionate storytelling, she explores how the absence of fathers can affect children as they grow into adults and how those wounds can influence the way people love, parent, relate, and navigate life.

But this is not simply a book about what has been lost.

It is an invitation to understand the hidden pain behind broken relationships, recognise the consequences of absence, and consider what it takes to rebuild what has been damaged.

Drawing from professional experience and a deep concern for families and communities, Dr. Forchu brings together psychological insight, social reflection, and spiritual perspective to ask difficult questions about fatherhood, responsibility, healing, forgiveness, and the future of society.

INVISIBLE MEN is for parents, educators, counsellors, faith leaders, mental health professionals, young adults, and anyone seeking to understand the human cost of fatherlessness and the possibility of breaking destructive cycles.

This is because when absence becomes normal, its consequences become invisible, and what remains unseen cannot be healed.