Posted on 08/09/2004 11:40:40 AM PDT by truthandlife
ew research shows that men are more involved and attentive as husbands and fathers if they are religious -- and specifically evangelical Protestants.
According to an article in USA Today, "Though they favor a patriarchal family structure, evangelical Protestant men who attend church regularly scored higher on several national surveys that evaluated levels of family involvement and affection than did men from other religious groups and men who consider themselves religiously unaffiliated."
Data was analyzed after being collected from three surveys conducted more than once during 1972-1999. The surveys "examined behaviors and attitudes toward family and gender among different religious groups including Catholics and Protestant Christian denominations, Jews, Muslims and others."
Of the groups surveyed, churchgoing Protestants, especially evangelicals, ranked higher in family involvement and lower in domestic violence. Those categorized as evangelical Protestants include Assemblies of God, Southern Baptists, and nondenominational evangelical churches.
Evangelical Protestants hold a traditional social approach contrary to popular culture. Although these traditional values act as a shield to the corrupt culture, they also indicate reluctance on the part of men to share domestic responsibilities.
"Fifty-eight percent of evangelical Protestant men, compared with 37 percent of those who said they were unaffiliated with a religion, believe that men should focus on breadwinning while women focus on homemaking," the article said.
I told my wife I was a good catch......
shhh...don't tell my hubby.
Does the survey hold for both fathers in a relationship?
I have to agree. I met my first husband in a bowling alley - two kids & one divorce. I met my second husband at church and we've been married close to nine years. We now have three children and he is an amazing dad.
He even adopted my two older children when their biological sperm donor decided he didn't want to pay child support any longer. This meant that he worked a full time job during the day, a part time job in the evenings and on weekends but he did it for two years. Now we are back on track and having a great time.
Woo-hoo! We evangelical dads rock!
I'm #1! I'm #1!
Hey...apparently my girlfriend snatched a good one!!!
Hey...apparently my girlfriend snatched a good one!!!
You mean Muslims didnt win this study? i thought the burkas would have put them over the top!
How can we be both #1? LOL
Recognition at last !
Now all I need is a nice evangelical protestant woman to help me raise my two children ;)
Now where are all the good Evangelical Protestant women?
This is not a surprise. Orthodox Protestants have a better appreciation of the Old Testament than Catholics have, which makes them more secure in their masculine/patriarchal role. Also, Protestants do not have the tradition of making "religion" or "religious education the province of nuns. This does not, of course, apply to the heterodox, liberal Protestants, who have feminized religion even more than Catholics have.
This article is great news, but your comment I would like to clarify if I may. It is not the liberal women who are responsible for the feminization nonsense. It's solely the men's fault; they are they ones who make room for all this ... and the women more or less naturally 'take over'.
Feminization is simply a sympton of what's wrong w/ many, many 'liberal' men. Feminization of all culture, including religious, should be really be called 'the inevitable results of the abdication of men'.
I have one of these special men.
We are in a very large PCA Church, and we raised our children here also.
We have one of these special ones as a son, who happens to be a Freeper!
The other son is struggling.
God Bless them all.
And God Bless all those that know the Lord and His Mercy!!!
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