Posted on 05/27/2022 4:19:36 PM PDT by grundle
To point out that boys need their fathers is to shine a spotlight on divorce and single mothers; and that is, admittedly, uncomfortable. But there’s no way to address fatherlessness comfortably.
The fact is, divorce and family breakdown—which, to answer my emailer’s question, is the root of fatherlessness—is catastrophic for children. There’s more than one reason why, but an obvious one is that in the majority of cases, divorce separates children from their fathers.
This is destructive to both boys and girls, but each sex suffers differently. Girls who grow up deprived of their father are more likely to become depressed, more likely to self-harm, and more likely to be promiscuous. But they still have their mothers, with whom they clearly identify. Boys do not have a comparable identification and thus suffer more from father absence. They also tend to act out in a manner that’s harmful to others, which girls typically do not.
The root of fatherlessness is deep and wide, but it ultimately rests in two things: our culture’s dismissal of men as valuable human beings who have something unique to offer—on the one hand, we tell them to ‘man up,’ and on the other we tell them manhood is the problem—and its dismissal of marriage as an institution that’s crucial to the health and well-being of children. This long-standing belief has been supplanted by the notion that marriage is about the emotional fulfillment of adults.
It is not. Marriage is about the needs of children, pure and simple. That’s how it began, and that’s how it remains. Children’s needs are the same today as they were one hundred years ago. It is we, not they, who have changed.
Thus, it is we who have failed.
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Comac McCarthy touch on this in Blood Meridian.
When I went to high school the overwhelming majority of the “bad kids” lived in apartment complexes with single moms who were working. There was no dad at home to kick their backsides.
yes, the children of broken homes are a big factor.
and how many children are born to single women and raised without a father??
Broken homes - democrat dependency. Just the way it is designed to work.
The vast majority of school shooters were on psycho drugs. Don’t know about this one.
May not be causation, may just be correlation.
I think Rush hit the nail on the head as to what the problem is in America today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pur18_UK4
A boy who grows up without a decent,respectable,hard working father in the house starts life with 2.9 strikes against him. And this nation's crime stats prove that!
It missed the most obvious cause: paying mother's to have kids without dad's. Whatever it is that one pays for , you get more of it. Supply and Demand. End Welfare.
Murphy Brown?
LBJ’s “We’ll have em voting for us for the next 100 years.”. Democrats destroyed black families for political power. So wicked and despicable.
And these boys are also ALL on RITALIN, ADDERAL, etc.....And NONE of them have GOD in their lives, which is the MOST IMPORTANT THING!
Now factor in how many of these broken homes were due to drugs.
Don't most school shooters end up DRT (Dead Right There)? It could be considered suicide by cop via school shooting.
It’s not just single women having kids with no fathers around or welfare policies encouraging it. 2/3 of divorces are initiated by women. That number goes to nearly 90% when they are college educated. And who usually gets the kids? Why are women doing that more than men? Infidelity goes both ways, especially these days, so the man screwing around is not necessarily the main reason for *those* broken homes.
Yes I remember the Murphy Brown thing with Dan Quayle. So much abuse was heaped on Dan Quayle, that ever since, politicians are afraid to say anything about broken homes or illegitimate births or absent fathers.
another byproduct of the evil 19th amendment ...
All these assholes are Democrats.
Want to fix this problem legislative, ban Democrats from owning guns.
Apparently they don’t have the morals necessary to respect the lives and rights of others.
Guaranteed, the left loves it when a plan comes together !
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