Posted on 06/16/2013 9:44:21 AM PDT by ReformationFan
Father’s Day is this Sunday. A time to celebrate fathers throughout America, it is also a time to bring renewed attention to the consequences of fatherless households.
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My son is fourteen now. I miss the times he would clamber up next to me in the armchair and want a story.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads here on FreeRepublic. Make it a special day.
This is the most confusing day in Washington DC trying to find out which one of those ‘mutha’s’ is a ‘fatha’.
To me, no kids no marriage.. I gave my wife a warning..
Fathers have become seen as not needed or inconsequential.
A perfect example is a recent thread here on Free Republic, in which a young girl said that she was the girl who gave her baby life. She had found herself with an unplanned pregnancy, and rejected abortion. And she told her story about how she and her baby were doing.
Not once did that girl ever mention anything about her boyfriend, or what role that he would have in her baby’s life. She talked a lot about how supportive her parents and family and friends were, but not one word about how she got pregnant, or what role he had in her life or her baby’s life.
Maybe he’s no longer in her life, and that’s why nothing was said about him. But, our cultural norms are such that it’s not unusual for a father to have no significant role in the lives of their children.
Communists require total obedience to the state, they suffered the family unit as a necessary evil until the transition to pure communism would demand its use no longer.
Others loved breaking the family up because it allowed them to divide and conquer pitting men and women against each other. Femenists in particular. Others enjoyed emasculating men and destroying their main roles in society. Take the fathers away and boys don’t learn how to be real men. And since men, who are more independent and less likely to just “go along” with stuff, don’t have a role model explaining why you don’t do that blindly, you get adult men who act more like women and are more controllable and less prone to tell authority, when it over-reaches and does illegal things, to SHOVE IT and fight back.
I don’t understand what you’ve posted. What are you trying to say, a different way?
Good Christian fathers are one of the most valuable and rarest assets of our culture.
Flame away, but I’m not changing my opinion.
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Maybe he’s no longer in her life, and that’s why nothing was said about him. But, our cultural norms are such that it’s not unusual for a father to have no significant role in the lives of their children.
How many boys just entering puberty, if and when they are told the facts of human reproduction, are asked to visualize becoming fathers some day?
I remember the sex education classes we took (film presentations in sixth grade, I believe there were separate classes for boys and girls). I don't recall hearing anything to place the biological processes within a moral and social framework. What was presented was pretty much pure biology. Something can and will come along to fill the vacuum that should have been filled with moral and social values and that thing was and is popular culture, which cares only about the present moment and self-gratification.
So what happens is that "father" never enters the head of the young boy, and when the girl says "I'm pregnant" he's off in a flash.
The girl is filled with shame and heartbreak at her abandonment, and would rather not dwell on that, but rather on hope and a future for her child. She isn't silent because she doesn't think the boy who caused her pregnancy is irrelevant, she's silent because the pain is too great.
On another note, I heard not too long ago about a single woman, never married, middle aged, who decided to adopt a little girl. That little girl has no father.
Our society insists on acting as if children aren’t the practically inevitable result of sex. Nobody, male or female, should engage in sex unless they are willing to assume lifetime responsibility for the child who might be conceived that moment. If we can’t deal with that, we’re saying the proliferation of fatherless children, and the attendant social catastrophe, is an acceptable price to pay for the immediate gratification of our urges.
The so-called progressives of the late 1800s were the beginning of the end of the family. The same bipartisan social putsch of the last three decades was the end.
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