WinteryKnight: Something to think about when people on the left tell you that children don’t need a father. And remember, increasing welfare payments for single mothers just encourages them to have more children, and to delay marriage. Big government takes the place of a man, and allows them to pursue men who make them feel good, rather than men who can actually do the job of being a father and a husband. The single mothers I’ve spoken to like government stepping in, because it allows them more freedom to follow their hearts, rather than having to give to and invest in a man. We are paying them to do this when we give them money, making fathers optional. It’s child abuse, aided and abetted by government. MORE
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Water is wet. Du-oh
you know who didn’t have fathers at home?
barrock and bill clintoon.
What about Sachmo and Malaria?
Central casting placed them as infants with a tranny and a gay submissive.
Now THAT is child abuse!
All children need a father, enough said. I am very fortunate at age 63 to still have a living Father who is 87 and doing well. My Mom will be 91 next week and they have been married for 64 years as of June 1st. Every child deserves a good father. I also find that the older that I get I’m becoming more like my Dad, funny how that happens.
I am 67 years old, female. My father committed suicide 2 weeks before I was born and my mother never remarried. It has affected all of my relationships with men including 2 failed marriages (no children). Growing up fatherless had a devastating affect on my life, despite my best efforts to work through it.
Black female-headed households were just 18 percent of households in 1950, as opposed to about 68 percent today. In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the black marriage rate was slightly higher than that of whites. Even during slavery, when marriage was forbidden for blacks, most black children lived in biological two-parent families. In New York City, in 1925, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were two-parent households.
During the 1960s, devastating nonsense emerged, exemplified by a Johns Hopkins University sociology professor who argued, “It has yet to be shown that the absence of a father was directly responsible for any of the supposed deficiencies of broken homes.” The real issue, he went on to say, “is not the lack of male presence but the lack of male income.” That suggests marriage and fatherhood can be replaced by a welfare check.
The black illegitimacy rate is 75 percent, and in some cities, it’s 90 percent. But if that’s a legacy of slavery, it must have skipped several generations, because in the 1940s, unwed births hovered around 14 percent.
Walter Williams, http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/07/31/black-selfsabotage-n1651550/page/full
An excellent presentation of how the trinity functions, according to Scripture, is the earthly family. In His divine wisdom, God has set-up the family unit in such a way as to reveal the authority and order of God to us. The roles God has designed for the family unit is a direct reflection of the roles of each member of the Godhead. God is the Father, Jesus is the Son, and the Holy Spirit as the Comforter is the equivalent to the role of a mother. Remember, we are not talking about genders here. We are talking about “roles” and how those roles relate to each other.
Although comprised of more than one person (father, mother, and children), a family functions as one entity because all of the members of the family are to be in subjection to the head of the family – namely the father. Scripture tells us that it is the same way with God.
Well, that revered progressive Margaret Sanger wanted to prevent black children from being born in the first place, so maybe tolerating a high illegitimacy rate represents a softening of the progressive stance on this issue.
LivingProod,
I feel so deeply sorry for you, if I can say so. You make me want to pay even more attention to my 6 and 8 yo girls.
Can I ask what you would ID as the greatest damage caused by not knowing a father? It need not be one thing but I’m very interested. Thank you.
Very sorry I hit D instead of F and posted before I saw it.
My youngest daughter’s husband was an unfaithful d***. She would love to find a good man to be a husband and father to her son; however, it seems that these days men don’t want to take care of their own children, much less someone else’s. Our culture tells young people that commitment and monogamy are for losers.
Grool,
I was always so envious of my friends’ dads and felt so left out. Never quite felt like I fit into anything family related. My older brother ended up marrying a Mormon and has 4 beautiful kids, so he wasn’t as impacted as I was. We have been estranged for almost 10 years. Not in touch with any of the nieces or nephews either. Yet I manage fairly well with my current husband, who to be truthful, I shouldn’t have married. We are two different people.
I hope you maintain a close, communicative relationship with your daughters so they can aspire to good relationships in the future.