"Society has devalued the role a Father plays in a childs life and they have redefined it only as monetary support, rather than emotional or physical safety."
I think you're being overly optimistic and pulling your punches on this issue.
The reality circa 2007 is that a father is a father to his children only so long as the mother decides she wants to stick around. Other than that, he's simply the person who donates the chromosomes and scratches out the checks.
Marriage in our country is dying out. In another generation, the only people that you're going to see getting married are those who look upon it as a way of acheiving some sort of societal legitimacy (e.g. homosexuals), or those who are profoundly religious.
The practical benefits of marriage from a male perspective are almost nonexistent. While women may view men as being somewhat unintelligent, we aren't. Men can see that marriage in the pragmatic sense is a bad deal for them and they're simply not going to consent to marriage absent a compelling religious reason for doing so. You can see this happening already in the increasing level of illegitimate births and the number of men surveyed who are saying that they simply will not marry. That's an absolute disaster for women, because marriage is for the protection of women and children.
The coup de grace, of course, will be when a male birth control pill is developed. Probably within the next 10 years.
At that point, we will all be able to stand back and reflect on the irony of of 50 years of radical feminism. There has been a sexual revolution in the west, and when all is said and done, women will have completely and utterly lost.
You think I'm being overly optimistic? I think you need to re-read the post. I agree with you.
I wrote that the only reason many women want the father around is for the money they provide the children. They fail to see the critical importance a man plays in a childs life.
I do agreee with you about marriage. It is sad, very sad. Many people who get divorced think they are going to get rid of their problems when divorcing. Rather, they just exchange them for different ones.
It is interesting how you link religion with the marriage statistics. I hear polls all the time report that a huge majority of U.S citizens, 89% say they are Christian. The number decreases dramatically when they are asked specifically if they are "Born Again" Christians, to something like 7%. So if we link religion to divorce statistics, we should define what it means to be a Christian. My instinct tells me that "Born Again" Christians have a very low rate of divorce if both husband and wife are believers.