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The Catastrophe of Fatherlessness
Fatherlessness is a serious blight on American life. As the family goes, so goes society. And, contrary to what the left says (who spend much of their energy diminishing traditional gender roles and arguing that whatever “family you choose” is just as good as the real thing), fathers are integral to the life of a child.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged All in the Family, Archie Bunke, Bertrand Russell, Cabrini-Green, Charles Crismier, Dr. Paul Vitz, Father Knows Best, Father's Day, fatherlessness, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Society, H. G. Wells, Hearts of the Fathers, Homer Simpson, Jean Paul Sartre, Leave It to Beaver, Sigmund Freud, The Faith of the Fatherless, Thomas Hobbs, Thomas Sowell, Voltaire
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I’m No Murphy Brown
I hated being a single parent. Still do. I am sure my grown children agree that being raised by Homer Simpson was horrible. They are all healthy and productive members of society, despite being raised by an ogre, in no small part because of our extended family. Aunts and uncles caulked the gaps left by my inadequacies, sins and failures.
Family is not a reality show or a how-to series on cable. I had a whole family until my wife went home to Christ in 1998, leaving three small children in my charge and care.
I did the best I …
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Media Watch
Tagged Ally McBeal, Desperate Housewives, Francis Parkman, HBO, Homer Simpson, Murphy Brown, Norman Lear, Richard Zoglin, Sex and the City
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