The Fury of the Fatherless

[Jolly]

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/12/the-fury-of-the-fatherless

[Axtremus]

She claims "fatherlessness" is the problem, yet provided no data to back up the claim. Lots of empty rhetorics that are not supported by empirical evidence.

[Horace]

You don't think there is empirical evidence of a fatherless home's connection to name-your-bad-thing?

[Mik]

You know, if memory serves there is enough research on the subject to fill a library.

[Copper]

Remember the Million Man March

[taiwan_girl]

I do think that it is better to have two parents in the family, then just to be a single parent family.

Don’t have data for that, but it just seems common sense to me.

Of course, there will always be exceptions, like if the father is a drug user or alcohol user or something like that. But in normal cases, two parents are better than one.

[Doctor Phibes]

So what's the solution? Take kids away from single parents? Force parents to stay together against their will? Outlaw selfishness?

The article seems a little short on practical suggestions.

[Copper]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

So what's the solution? Take kids away from single parents? Force parents to stay together against their will? Outlaw selfishness?

The article seems a little short on practical suggestions.

More like encourage desirable values, the things you hear about when you go to church

You can find real communities there built on something other than hate Trump

And does anyone really think there is no data to support saying fatherless homes are undesirable?

What did I miss? Has cnn been pushing fatherless homes lately? Is this part of the narrative now?

[Doctor Phibes]

The problem with church is that it's on Sunday morning. Typically, my kids are too busy trying to sober me up to attend.

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

. . . my kids are too busy trying to sober me up to attend.

[Mik]

Who says you have to be sober?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

Who says you have to be sober?

Nothing ruins a well-presented sermon like a drunken heckler.

Or so I've heard.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

@Mik said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

Who says you have to be sober?

Nothing ruins a well-presented sermon like a drunken heckler.

Or so I've heard.

We can sober you up. Ve haft vays...

[taiwan_girl]

A friend of mine told me that the problem with church was that Christianity ends in the parking lot. LOL

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

A friend of mine told me that the problem with church was that Christianity ends in the parking lot. LOL

There's always this big fight over who gets the Disabled spot.

[Jolly]

Meanwhile, we laugh while a generation of kids goes to Hell in a handbasket...

[taiwan_girl]

I think that is too pessimist.

Probably for a long long time, the older generations think the younger generations are on a path where things will get worse. The younger generations seem to figure it out.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

Meanwhile, we laugh while a generation of kids goes to Hell in a handbasket...

Laughter's the best medicine, at least up until the point when the liquor stores open.

[Catseye3]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

Laughter's the best medicine, at least up until the point when the liquor stores open.

Got a quote for you, Phibbs. I redd a brief biog of Franklin Pierce which included what is apparently his best-known quote: “All that’s left, is to drink and die.”

[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Fury of the Fatherless:

So what's the solution? Take kids away from single parents? Force parents to stay together against their will? Outlaw selfishness?

The article seems a little short on practical suggestions.

Social ideas. What you think and what you say.

The culture of black males has been reinforced time and again by white america. It's a culture of tough, violent men. So think twice.