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.The Real Truth - Fatherless – The Nuclear Family MeltdownFAMILY
Fatherless
The Nuclear Family Meltdown
BY KEVIN D. DENEE AND H. CHRIS LOMASDecember 10, 2008.For thousands of years the family unit has been under assault. One of two vital players—fathers—is increasingly not showing up on the job. Why? And where will it end?
Who are you? What made you the way you are? What do you look like? What do you value in life? What are your hopes, dreams and goals?
None of these questions can be answered in a word, or even a sentence. However, the basis of these answers, the material that you would need, began to be compiled when your life started.
A plethora of other “deep” or “probing” questions could be asked about your person—but in almost every case, you could not turn to a single event that forms the answer. This is because your life experience from the day you were conceived has helped shape the person you are today.
From a scientific perspective, any answer to the above questions would come from your brain. Let’s notice how your brain has been working from the beginning of your life (emphasis ours): “Brain cells are ‘raw’ materials—much like lumber is a raw material in building a house. Heredity may determine the basic number of ‘neurons’ (brain nerve cells) children are born with, and their initial arrangement, but this is just a framework. A child’s environment has enormous impact on how these cells get connected or ‘wired’ to each other.”
“A brain is not a computer. The brain begins working long before it is finished. And the same processes that wire the brain before birth also drive the very rapid growth of learning that occurs immediately after birth. At birth, a baby’s brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way...During the first years of life, the brain undergoes a series of extraordinary changes” (“Brain Development,” University of Maine).
From a young age, you were a giant sponge, drinking in your environment—sounds, shapes, lights, faces, voices, languages, music, emotions, etc. As you grew, more complex things impacted your world, ultimately developing who you are today—parents, other caregivers, siblings, friends, education, physical environment, etc.
Now ask: Which individuals were most responsible for your developmental years of life? For almost every reader, the answer is your father and mother.
For millennia, this has been the cycle for the family unit: A man and woman come together in marriage. They have children. They care for their children and teach them how to live. The children grow up, take what they have learned and live their own lives, usually becoming parents. And thus, the cycle continues.
That cycle is quickly falling apart. The social experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries—which have attempted to redefine the roles of parent and child—have caused the family to come under assault. One of the greatest factors is that families are increasingly becoming fatherless.
The Facts
Over the last 50 years, more and more children have been growing up without their fathers. The role of a father should, simply from a mathematical perspective, be one that contributes 50% to the development of any child. But millions of children in the United States, and the world at large, will put their heads on a pillow tonight in a home without a father.
Here are some statistics from Focus on the Family (emphasis ours):
•“The United States leads the world in fatherless families, with roughly 24 million children (or 34% of all kids in the United States) living in homes where the father does not reside.”
•“Nearly 40% of children in father-absent homes have not seen their dad during the past year.”
•“More than half of all fatherless children have never been in their dad’s home.”
Stop and consider the first two points. Twenty-four million children are growing up without a father figure—without the teaching, guiding, experience-building, correcting, nurturing that a father can bring. When you see 20 children, realize that seven are not living with their father. Then realize that nearly 10 million have not even seen their father in the past year!
Consider a point of reference: “In 1960, less than eight million children under age 18 were living in families where the father was absent” (U.S. Bureau of the Census). This means that the number of children being raised in single-mother homes has tripled in less than 50 years!
In the 1950s, the term “nuclear family” was coined. This essentially described a family of a father, mother and children. This was to distinguish from an “extended family,” which could include grandparents, or others. By the 1960s, 80% of America’s children lived with two married parents—today under 60% do.
A 1996 Gallup poll revealed 79% agree that “The most significant family, or social problem facing America is the physical absence of the father from the home.”
Additionally, the poll stated that 54% feel that fathers do not know what is going on in their children’s lives and that 90% feel it is important that a child lives with both a father and a mother.
The nuclear family is facing a meltdown. Where will it all end? What impact will this have on millions of minds—generation after generation? How can we solve the mess in which our social experiments have put us?
Source: www.realtruth.org...
Originally posted by Abrihetx
Why are there so many people that are angry with women? ...
Originally posted by Observer99
The answer is to not have kids.
And isn't that interesting. If you want to pass on your genes, you have to conform to the system that will screw you over. If you don't conform to the system, you die off to make room for the more obedient corporate slaves.
Originally posted by gps777
Men have been used because its in our very nature to protect females and put them before ourselves.Thats why we have seen the odd ignorant to the system "HE MAN" post even in this thread.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by Binder
reply to post by Annee
I gross $70K a year. After medical insurance, taxes, and child support I net $400 a week. She makes $50K a year before my child support bolsters her net an additional $27K a year
So what.
It is your child.
Most parents that are married struggle to spend any time with their children thanks to the feminist agenda and the degeneration of the family unit which has forced both parents into the workplace, both often working 60 hours a week simply to maintain a fair, traditional standard of living.
Originally posted by Annee
MAN went to war - - left women to fend for themselves. Guess what - - the women did just fine without you.
MAN comes home - - expects woman to revert back to subservient.
Are you out of your mind?
Originally posted by SevenBeans
Originally posted by Annee
MAN went to war - - left women to fend for themselves. Guess what - - the women did just fine without you.
MAN comes home - - expects woman to revert back to subservient.
Are you out of your mind?
Oh brother.
For one thing, men were sent to war (often against their wishes)... maybe we should have brought you all along rather than "leaving you to fend for yourselves." Poor things.
Fact is: MAN is responsible for women becoming independent.
Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by Annee
Fact is: MAN is responsible for women becoming independent.
If women were truly independent, they would also bear full responsibility for their own unilateral decision to bring a child into this world, and not leech money from men that did not agree with it in the first place.
Buck Up Macho Man - - you are 50% responsible for the act and any results of.