chantal (6):
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Yeah, well in real life I read about fathers murdering their wives and children and then chickening out by committing suicide, killing their son on Father’s Day by slamming his head against a wall, and throwing defenceless toddlers off a bridge to their death, etc. etc.But I’ve not seen these fathers on television.
Sure you have – they make up most of the horror shows. What do evil fathers (who hardly form a preponderance or even a substantial minority of fathers) have to do with the subject at hand? These men would do these things regardless of their marital status.
And a lot of the 97% of crimes committed by males in the US every year are are committed by FATHERS, not single mothers. This is the example they set to their SONS! Many of the absent fathers are absent because they are in PRISON!
Again, so what? No one has accused single-mothers per se of being criminal, just foolish.
Fatherlessness is a wilful abdication of responsibility for wives and children for whatever reason the man chooses. It has been around for centuries and centuries long before feminism came along. It is not the result of feminist propaganda or any woman holding a gun to any man’s head, and it is sheer cowardice to pretend otherwise.
I will not disagree with you; however no one is pretending otherwise. Indeed, I will hold that if you look carefully, much of the criminal behavior cited above is due to lack of proper fathering by the fathers of the men involved. One of the most important lessons that I am teaching my own son is how to control his temper, and how to behave in a civilized manner. One of the most important roles of a father is to teach self-control and self-discipline to his sons; a thing that a mother has a hard time doing. (Not impossible, just difficult).
