Fatherlessness and youth violence
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 5:44 am
This report reappeared recently.
Feb 2018 / “Of the 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Had One Thing in Common”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckl ... ng-common/
Men have important roles in all cultures, all faiths.
Current “evolved” PC western politics are doing a lot of harm, much of it attempting to “out-smart” God. “Let’s do it our way!”
Some saw this coming decades ago, about so many single-parent homes, usually with mother, father not present. Their warnings were essentially ignored.
i’m sad about the loss of BILL COSBY as a leader. i was not a big fan, but ..
i believe, in the 1980’s, he was on Oprah? (i can’t find a clip of it, i’ve looked several times)
he spoke very seriously about a coming disaster in the black community, due to so many fatherless homes. as i recall, he explained, he wasn’t alone, there were groups of black leaders meeting to address this problem and others - in attempt to guide the future.
i was touched by this, i did not know his serious side. this was before his son was murdered. (?)
i had no idea this was going on “under the mainstream radar,” and, i prayed for them to be effective and successful in making a difference. i’m not sure i’ve heard anymore about it, but, i’ve prayed they have continued. i’m sad to witness, things Bill Cosby described, have unfolded as he warned. so many fatherless homes, not in black communities, alone.
He wasn’t saying this was a new problem at that time.
He said it was a problem that was headed to explode.
Husbands and fathers are needed in homes.
so much of western culture seems intent on pushing them out.
not that they are “always irresponsible,” but, somehow, many are pushed out.
Boys need male leadership in unique ways that the most loving mothers cannot replace.
God designed us to be flexible to adjust to all sorts of imperfect earthly situations.
By His grace, somehow, we do!
That doesn’t mean the holes in our hearts from missing persons don’t exist.
Feb 2018 / “Of the 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Had One Thing in Common”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markmeckl ... ng-common/
.. Mr. Black is correct that boys are broken. But they’re not broken as a result of being cavemen who haven’t “evolved” the way women have. They’re broken for another reason.
They are fatherless.
Well. Jesus Christ is needed in leadership of, families, and, “cultural norms.”.. Yes, yes, and a thousand times yes.
Fatherlessness is a serious problem.
America’s boys have been under stress for decades.
It’s not toxic masculinity hurting them, it’s the fact that when they come home there are no fathers there. Plain and simple.
Add that to a bunch of horrible cultural trends telling them that everything bad is good (gang culture, drugs, misogyny, etc.), and we’ve got a serious problem on our hands.
Venker goes on to explain that of CNN’s list of the “27 Deadliest Mass Shootings In U.S. History, only one was raised by his biological father since childhood.
“Indeed, there is a direct correlation between boys who grow up with absent fathers and boys who drop out of school, who drink, who do drugs, who become delinquent and who wind up in prison,”
she writes. “And who kill their classmates.”
This problem can’t be solved by any policy, or any sort of gun control. It is time to have a serious discussion about the degradation of our cultural norms.
Men have important roles in all cultures, all faiths.
Current “evolved” PC western politics are doing a lot of harm, much of it attempting to “out-smart” God. “Let’s do it our way!”
Some saw this coming decades ago, about so many single-parent homes, usually with mother, father not present. Their warnings were essentially ignored.
i’m sad about the loss of BILL COSBY as a leader. i was not a big fan, but ..
i believe, in the 1980’s, he was on Oprah? (i can’t find a clip of it, i’ve looked several times)
he spoke very seriously about a coming disaster in the black community, due to so many fatherless homes. as i recall, he explained, he wasn’t alone, there were groups of black leaders meeting to address this problem and others - in attempt to guide the future.
i was touched by this, i did not know his serious side. this was before his son was murdered. (?)
i had no idea this was going on “under the mainstream radar,” and, i prayed for them to be effective and successful in making a difference. i’m not sure i’ve heard anymore about it, but, i’ve prayed they have continued. i’m sad to witness, things Bill Cosby described, have unfolded as he warned. so many fatherless homes, not in black communities, alone.
He wasn’t saying this was a new problem at that time.
He said it was a problem that was headed to explode.
Husbands and fathers are needed in homes.
so much of western culture seems intent on pushing them out.
not that they are “always irresponsible,” but, somehow, many are pushed out.
Boys need male leadership in unique ways that the most loving mothers cannot replace.
God designed us to be flexible to adjust to all sorts of imperfect earthly situations.
By His grace, somehow, we do!
That doesn’t mean the holes in our hearts from missing persons don’t exist.