Kids love to build forts. Tree forts or sheet forts in their rooms. It does not matter if it is inside or outside kids love to build enclosures where they can feel safe and secure. This innate desire comes from the need to build something that stands the test of time. Divorce and absentee fathers eliminate forts because they destroy foundations for kids to naturally gravitate to building forts. Some of you are reading this are thinking, No my divorce worked out great. WRONG!  Divorce is the worst thing that can happen for a child.  Some times it is inevitable realistically the ripping and tearing of a critical foundational structure of family destroys kids desire to build forts, family and futures. I think a study should be done if kids from divorced families build forts. I bet they don’t because they don’t know how. This lack of desire might come from the thought that it will get torn down anyway so why build. Challenge to you. Build a fort in your life. Fort is defined as a permanent army post. A fortress is a strengthened fort where troops can go out and come in for safety provisions and refreshment. If enemies attacked a fort the building withstood arrows, flames and intruders. Huge gates locked the right people in and kept the wrong people out. Usually a benevolent ruler or commander decided who came in and who was ready to go out. Think about your fort. Is it fortified?