Think about this; All of Sandusky’s victims were boys who did not have their fathers around.
doesn;t surveys etc show that if a kid has a mother and a father at home then that kid prospers much more?
I know many parents today raise their kids as a second thought, come home tired, kick off shoes, grab a wine and leave kids in bedroom with TV, texting, radio or what ever they have in htere.
My kids don;t even have a TV in their bedroom because we like spending time with our kids
Devoted men keep families strong. I’ve never understood why saying this took anything away from the honor of single moms, who struggle for their family’s survival despite the father’s neglect. I’m not saying all divorced dad’s neglect their kids, but there sure are a lot of completely uninvolved fathers who have terribly hurt their kids.
My husband stuck with his family though thick and thin, and I thank God for his love and protection. We are truly blessed.
As a Dad it was always my job to physically eject my couch-potato child from glowing screens and force her to go out and get some fresh air and exercise.
John Paul II said one time that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.
One of the most obvious causes of the many socially disoriented of our youth, is the fact that they are not growing up with proper role models. Does the absence of such fuel a sub-conscious rage, which can erupt in terrible acts?
Consider this: Until recently the ideal for young men was found in concepts adopted from the Chivalric Code in Christian Europe. Would anyone suggest that if more of our youth were conditioned by Chivalric values, we would not see a reduction in anti-social behavior?
In my opinion, while there may be multiple factors at play here, most of them relate to the loss of traditional purpose among our youth. Most of them!
See Losing America's Multi-Generational Purpose.
William Flax
As materialists, liberals want empirical proof that fathers are needed in the home. There actually is proof but they want it to be 100% proof. The same dynamic works in their atheism. More humble previous generations knew things by common sense and experience. Today’s arrogant generation wants things proven beyond a doubt or they won’t believe. As Jesus says:”An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign.”
A mother alone has a hard time teaching a boy to be a man, and teaching a girl how a man should treat her. The lack of fathers is the single greatest plague on the black community in this country, and its spreading.
SnakeDoc
Didnt the Columbine killers come from two parent homes?..........
I don’t think this has anything at all to do with parentage. Lanza was just nuts in a clinical way. The statements by former teachers that he couldn’t feel pain and would burn himself and not feel a thing lead me to believe he had far more serious mental problems than what is reported. There may have been undiagnosed schizophrenia, hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy, or a combination of disorders.
Divorce is never good for the kids. I know a young man (15) who lost his father to cancer some years ago. Is he also doomed? Or do different circumstances of single-parenthood make a different outcome?
That’s why the Great Society was such a “success” for the progressives. Raising unwed black births > 75% has made them a permanent underclass reliably dependent on the govt.
Amen.
bkmk
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