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Fatherless Homes Linked to Mental Illness, Mass Shootings: Author Warren Farrell
epoch times ^ | 8 July A.D. 2022 | Masooma Haq and Jan Jekielek

Posted on 07/09/2022 1:25:18 PM PDT by lightman

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Farrell began his work for equal rights of women because he believed in the credo, “I am woman, I am strong,” but now he said he doesn’t support feminism because the feminist movement has changed to, “I am woman, I’ve been wronged.”
1 posted on 07/09/2022 1:25:18 PM PDT by lightman
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2 posted on 07/09/2022 1:29:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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“girls are growing up in the same environment as boys, with access to the same media, video games, and guns and dealing with the same mental health issues, but they aren’t committing any of the shootings.”
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The girls may not be doing the murder sprees, but they’re becoming trans. Glad to see the importance of the father being studied but I hope they don’t forget about the effect on girls.


3 posted on 07/09/2022 1:35:53 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: lightman

Everyone thought motherless was bad.


4 posted on 07/09/2022 1:40:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I remember when the feminists said that you don’t need a father in the home.


5 posted on 07/09/2022 1:44:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: lightman

I like Warren. I hope he can still change minds.


6 posted on 07/09/2022 1:45:48 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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>> I hope they don’t forget about the effect on girls.

agreed


7 posted on 07/09/2022 1:54:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: lightman

Besides (1) the “absent father”

a “fatherless home” sometimes has

(2) an occupant-father but in terms of the children’s emotional and instructional needs is actually absent,

or sometimes the occupant father is (3) so bad (abusive, alcoholic, drug addict, criminal) that having that occupant-father is worse than a father that is not there at all.

So there are really three kinds of “fatherless homes”, each obtaining a different set of hurdles for the child.

But no matter which kind of “fatherless homes” a kid comes from, the complications for the child can (do not have to) lead the child astray, badly astray in their mental development.

Sometimes a kid has inner resources to get over the development deficits of a fatherless home. You all know who Ben Carson is. Well he grew up in a fatherless home.


8 posted on 07/09/2022 1:55:27 PM PDT by Wuli
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“[...] both of their campaign managers came up to me and said, ‘Warren, we can’t afford to have our candidates speak out on the importance of boys having fathers and a lot of father involvement, because we’re afraid to alienate our feminist base.'”

Feminists demand the "right" not only to mass murder their own babies, but to raise future mass murderers.

Their body, their choice.

9 posted on 07/09/2022 1:56:49 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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They still say that.
This society is insane!


10 posted on 07/09/2022 1:57:11 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Beowulf9

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Feminists statements from the 70’s


11 posted on 07/09/2022 1:59:36 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, but don’t forget the big pharma antidepressants


12 posted on 07/09/2022 2:00:26 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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I have heard it said that there are no female Mozarts for the same reason there are no female Jack the Rippers. The difference between heroes and monsters is paper thin.


13 posted on 07/09/2022 2:02:31 PM PDT by Spok (Don’t pee down my leg and tell me it’s raininqg.)
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“Take me out to the ....video....game”

“Peanuts and purple hair and crackerjack”

“I don’t care if I ever come back”


14 posted on 07/09/2022 2:10:08 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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If you subsidize single parent families you get more of them.


15 posted on 07/09/2022 2:13:51 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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I agree about the importance of fathers, but this piece is badly written and sometimes confusing and contradictory.

The bad news is, the statistics show only 63% of children live with both biological parents. In 2019, only 51% were raised by both biological parents through high school.

There is some good news. Things are at least *slightly* better now than in 2012:

“63% actually represents a small increase from what the proportion of children living with both birth parents was in 2012, when it was 61 percent. And the 25% living with single, biological parents represents a small decline from the 2012 proportion of 28 percent. So even with this stricter definition of two-parent families, the trend data show a recovery or at least a levelling off from the lows observed early in the new millennium.”

And:

In 2019, just over 53% of U.S. high school seniors were living with both their biological parents. Just under 51% were with married birth parents and 2½% with cohabiting parents. This represents a considerable decline from the situation in 1996, when 61% of seniors were living with and had been raised by both birth parents. But it represents a modest recovery when compared with parallel findings from 2012 (when under 50% lived with both birth parents) and 2016 (when 51% did). Once again, the newest data point to a turning tide.

“One of the most encouraging developments is the rebound in the proportion of black children being raised by their biological fathers as well as their birth mothers. Among African American high school seniors, that proportion has risen from 24% in 2012 to 30% in 2019.”

It’s too early to tell if this really is a trend, but I do hope so, and that it will continue.

More at link (including graphs and pie charts):

https://ifstudies.org/blog/growing-up-with-mom-and-dad-new-data-confirm-the-tide-is-turning


16 posted on 07/09/2022 2:22:28 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Beowulf9

Yep. Their mantra: “a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”

And let’s not forget about parental alienation.


17 posted on 07/09/2022 2:35:25 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Texas resident

Beat me to it.


18 posted on 07/09/2022 2:36:28 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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And patental alienation by mostly custodial biomoms.


19 posted on 07/09/2022 2:38:03 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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Boys who grow up in a home without a decent,honest,hard working and respectable father have 2.9 strikes against them as they reach adulthood.
20 posted on 07/09/2022 2:40:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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