Posted on 06/21/2010 7:54:41 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
On the eve of Father's Day, I heard on the air on Chicago's WIND AM some typical left-wing babble about families. A fellow calling himself a doctor waxed eloquent over how we can "make our own families," and how "families aren't just about blood. They are about love." Nice, gauzy, and wholly inadequate to truly define the importance of family, isn't it? But it is this mushy-headed thinking that is so destructive to the role of real families in America today, especially where it concerns fathers. So, on this 2010 Father's Day I thought I'd correct the mushy-headed liberalism about families and put into perspective the true importance of families and fathers.
First of all, there is no disputing that families are "about love." That does, indeed, go without saying. Love is quite helpful for familial strength and success. But to simply say "families mean love" and leave it at that is completely misleading and inadequate to inform us of what a family is. In fact, love is equally as important as another descriptive word: responsibility. Families cannot survive without the later though they can get by without the former.
Unfortunately, in this society today we've dumbed down the word love into meaningless bromides with the result that love really has lost all meaning. All too often we use the word without any respect for its true meaning. We "love" movies, we "love" sports, we "love" music… sadly "love" has replaced the word "enjoy" or even "like." So when people say that love is all we need to make a family, we slight the difficulty and determination that making a family means. We make of family an ill-defined thought, an empty concept without giving it the seriousness it's due. We need to add the word responsibility to the description of what a family is so that people fully appreciate the importance of it all...
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Should read:
Families cannot survive without the latter, though they can get by without the former.
Regards,
“Make your own family”. Like Charles Manson did?
Or the Mob.
Ooops. Misspelling. Thanks.
I agree. Fathers can be extremely damaging when they do not live up to their Biblical roles. As someone who was traumatized by the brutality of my father, I would say that you can’t paint all families with the same brush. SOME families are worth running away from as fast and as soon as you can! And if a person can draw a group of loving friends to take the place of an abusive family, more power to them.
I also have a friend who is the remaining living member of her family, so she has dear friends who take the place of family, that she spends Christmas with, etc.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
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