These retreats cater to the overworked and overhauled members of Korean society (professionals, stay -
at -
home mothers, and even high
school students) and encourage guests to detach themselves from worldly
affairs by focusing inward on their spiritual healing, without the crutch of everyday distractions such as their phones, technology, and work.
On April 13, 2017 Dr. Cynthia Osborne, Director of the Child and Family Research Partnership (CFRP)
at the LBJ
School of Public
Affairs at The University of Texas
at Austin, provided expert testimony (video below)
at a Congressional Briefing in Washington, D.C. on the growing evidence of the importance of fathers in early childhood intervention
home visiting programs.