How do you reconcile her actions and her words? More importantly, how do you think her actions affect the continued marginalization of fatherhood?
All of the rest is scenery, just canards and red herrings. My issue is with the affect that this statement by a female conservative has had on the institution of fatherhood
HOW can she ever again discuss the critical importance of fathers when she has created a fatherless family by the most deliberate method possible?
That is my question.
I don’t think every case can reach the ideal, but I don’t think that should stop us from reaching an ideal. I do understand the gap you see between what Ingraham said about traditional families (however she might define it) and her raising an orphaned toddler as a single adoptive parent.
But I don’t think the ideal of traditional values suffers because she took in a child who was languishing in an orphanage. I think there has to be a compromise between a rigidly held ideal and the reality for someone like that child. But I’m basing that on my interpretation of Christ’s principle—which calls on me to be more Christlike even as I realize I will not ever attaing true perfection.
I have to admit I haven’t read Ingraham’s book, just snippets online including the passage discussed here.