Restoring Fatherhood in America
There is an excellent article posted on NewsWithViews.com this weekend by Carey Roberts entitled, “Father Knows Best.” Carey notes that the 1950's TV show starring Robert Young “played to a romanticized image of middle-class Americana. But that beats the modern-day alternative of a raging epidemic of sexually-transmitted diseases, safe havens for abandoned infants, and 11-year-old girls wearing thong underwear.” I grew up in the 50s and 60s right on the cusp of the change from Father Knows Best to No Father is Best .
Carey describes how that notion of fatherhood was destroyed beginning in the 1960s primarily due to radical feminists who demanded “equality” even if it led the destruction of the traditional family. He quotes feminist Robin Morgan who accurately predicted, “We can’t destroy the inequalities between men and women until we destroy marriage.” Well, she and her ilk have done a great job with the help of such laws as no-fault divorce, using the media to depict husbands as bumbling fools and entirely optional.
Carey recited additional factors that helped to destroy the American family most notably government intervention through “A series of legal opinions, laws, and government programs came along, all claiming to “empower” women: Roe v. Wade, Violence Against Women Act, welfare programs, maternal custody preference, draconian child support programs. . .”
As evidence of the destruction of the family unit, he cites the statistic that the number of kids living with their biological fathers plummeted from 82% to 62% in the 30 years following 1960. This fact shows that not only is the family hurt, but society is weakened and is badly damaged as well.
In his article Carey offers several websites for several organizations who are trying to restore fatherhood in America.
Being a parent, being a father or a mother is a high calling. If it is done right it takes a lot of love and resolve, especially when so many factors in our troubled society work against effective parenting. Instead of supporting parents and family our government agencies, courts and schools work in opposition to parents. It is also a proven fact that intact families where the father and mother are present is the ideal situation to raise a child.
There is an excellent article posted on NewsWithViews.com this weekend by Carey Roberts entitled, “Father Knows Best.” Carey notes that the 1950's TV show starring Robert Young “played to a romanticized image of middle-class Americana. But that beats the modern-day alternative of a raging epidemic of sexually-transmitted diseases, safe havens for abandoned infants, and 11-year-old girls wearing thong underwear.” I grew up in the 50s and 60s right on the cusp of the change from Father Knows Best to No Father is Best .
Carey describes how that notion of fatherhood was destroyed beginning in the 1960s primarily due to radical feminists who demanded “equality” even if it led the destruction of the traditional family. He quotes feminist Robin Morgan who accurately predicted, “We can’t destroy the inequalities between men and women until we destroy marriage.” Well, she and her ilk have done a great job with the help of such laws as no-fault divorce, using the media to depict husbands as bumbling fools and entirely optional.
Carey recited additional factors that helped to destroy the American family most notably government intervention through “A series of legal opinions, laws, and government programs came along, all claiming to “empower” women: Roe v. Wade, Violence Against Women Act, welfare programs, maternal custody preference, draconian child support programs. . .”
As evidence of the destruction of the family unit, he cites the statistic that the number of kids living with their biological fathers plummeted from 82% to 62% in the 30 years following 1960. This fact shows that not only is the family hurt, but society is weakened and is badly damaged as well.
In his article Carey offers several websites for several organizations who are trying to restore fatherhood in America.
Being a parent, being a father or a mother is a high calling. If it is done right it takes a lot of love and resolve, especially when so many factors in our troubled society work against effective parenting. Instead of supporting parents and family our government agencies, courts and schools work in opposition to parents. It is also a proven fact that intact families where the father and mother are present is the ideal situation to raise a child.
